Tag Archives: 2026 local elections

Labour refuse to respond to Cummings’s budget challenge

Posted on February 19, 2026 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on a sham challenge issued to rival political parties by a borrowing-dependent Conservative administration that is trying to con the public that they have ‘fixed the finances’ As Tory Mayor Jason Perry prepares to deliver what … Continue reading →

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Davis’s Valentine’s message: I’ll mend Croydon’s broken heart

Posted on February 12, 2026 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Labour candidate issues public apology for ‘some things that my party has done in the past’ in crashing Croydon Council’s finances Rowenna Davis has revealed how she has been talking to a consortium of around 12 potential investors and … Continue reading →

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Labour issues late appeal for election candidates to volunteer

Posted on February 7, 2026 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: With little more than 12 weeks until polling day, the party of Mandelson, McSweeney and Starmer has yet to name its candidates in 11 of this borough’s 28 voting districts. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor  The Labour Party in … Continue reading →

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Surrey Street market trader Joseph quits Labour in race row

Posted on January 31, 2026 by insidecroydon

Jose Joseph, the Surrey Street market stall-holder and one of the best-recognised faces on the local political scene, has quit the Labour Party, accusing it of “discrimination and toxic behaviour”. In a brief statement shared with party colleagues, Joseph announced … Continue reading →

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Labour’s Davis looks to CPO the ‘hole in the heart of Croydon’

Posted on January 29, 2026 by insidecroydon

Mayoral candidate intends to discuss a Compulsory Purchase Order of Chinese-owned property with Prime Minister on his return from Beijing. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Labour’s candidate for Croydon Mayor, Rowenna Davis, says that if elected in May she will look … Continue reading →

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Tories forced to amend forgetful Barwell’s dodgy election bio

Posted on January 22, 2026 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon will be sending the invoice for our proof-reading services to the incompetents at Croydon Conservatives’ HQ, after they made a late amendment when caught out with an untruth. But how many more lies might be found on the … Continue reading →

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Reform backs policy that could see children killed on our roads

Posted on January 22, 2026 by insidecroydon

What is Nigel Farage’s political company of grifters proposing for Croydon? To remove current 20mph speed limits on our streets. Columnist ANDREW FISHER, right, lays out the science and the facts in the face of far-right rhetoric  I’ve lived in … Continue reading →

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Lord Barwell’s son has a second go at getting himself elected

Posted on January 20, 2026 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, sifts through the much-delayed council candidate selections of the local Conservatives, who could lose one-third of their Town Hall seats come the elections in May After an absence of 16 years, there just might be a … Continue reading →

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Corbyn-Sultana in-fighting scuppers Your Party’s election bid

Posted on January 9, 2026 by insidecroydon

Denied campaign funds and details of their own members, the new party will struggle to field candidates in May’s local elections. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Your Party, the socialist party launched last summer by ex-Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah … Continue reading →

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That was the year that was – and 2026’s prospects look bleak

Posted on December 11, 2025 by insidecroydon

ANDREW FISHER, in his final iC column of 2025, considers the past year in Croydon, and how that might affect next May’s Town Hall elections. PLUS: How Your Party’s grassroots are being denied money and data to be able to … Continue reading →

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Reform threaten legal action over their cancelled Croydon party

Posted on December 3, 2025 by insidecroydon

‘It’s an outrage!’ frothed Farage’s deputy leader on KGBNews last night, after the £350 top-ticket event on a Purley Way industrial estate was called off. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Far-right political party Reform UK’s Christmas fund-raiser at the Grand … Continue reading →

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Muslim millionaire in row for hosting Reform’s Christmas party

Posted on November 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: A £350 a head fund-raising dinner for Nigel Farage’s ‘racist cronies’ at the Grand Sapphire Hotel on an industrial estate off the Purley Way next week has caused outrage. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports A massive row has broken … Continue reading →

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Reed confirms council funding formula will favour Croydon

Posted on November 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

#FUNDCROYDONFAIRLY: Government announces it will re-set its system for deciding grants to local government and, at last, cash-strapped Croydon might receive a fairer share. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Labour government has today announced that it is to scrap “outdated … Continue reading →

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Now even Mayor Perry agrees we need to Fund Croydon Fairly

Posted on November 6, 2025 by insidecroydon

Columnist ANDREW FISHER, and this website, have been lobbying government to #FundCroydonFairly since early 2023. So why did it take Mayor Jason Perry so long to catch on? In 2023, this website helped to launch a campaign for fair funding … Continue reading →

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Labour’s Davis tells minister Reed to fund Croydon fairly

Posted on November 3, 2025 by insidecroydon

Simultaneously, two of the borough’s mayoral candidates have decided to demand better government grants for the council. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Something very strange happened in Croydon yesterday. The leader of one of the larger political groups said: “For … Continue reading →

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‘Croydon: our time is coming!’ Labour’s Davis rallies her fans

Posted on September 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

So just what did Labour’s Rowenna Davis say she has to offer if she is elected Mayor of Croydon next May? KEN TOWL was at her campaign’s official launch, so that you, and Steve Reed OBE, didn’t need to be … Continue reading →

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Davis’s big launch might have been good, if only I could hear it

Posted on September 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

POLITICAL SKETCH: Ever been invited to a party when you’ve been expected to pay for your food? Or a launch event which is set up so you can neither see nor hear clearly the speakers on stage? KEN TOWL has, … Continue reading →

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Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor

Posted on August 27, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party is advertising for … Continue reading →

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Labour tweaks the rules to make sure members have no say

Posted on August 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

There might actually be something resembling a council candidate selection meeting for Labour members in Broad Green ward tonight – though most reasonable people will see through it as a thinly disguised foregone conclusion By STEVEN DOWNES Some Labour members … Continue reading →

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Local Labour members angry at ‘travesty’ of selection process

Posted on August 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

Uncharacteristic ‘openness’ from the Labour Party exposes their latest sham selection process, with candidates for next year’s local elections being named without grassroots members in most wards getting any say at all. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The fix is in. … Continue reading →

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Four black women among six councillors rejected by Labour

Posted on August 6, 2025 by insidecroydon

Six of Labour’s 34 sitting councillors have been deemed not good enough to be candidates for the party at the 2026 local elections – including a council shadow cabinet member and a 2024 parliamentary candidate. EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, Political … Continue reading →

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Labour axes at least two sitting councillors in brutal process

Posted on August 4, 2025 by insidecroydon

At least two of Labour’s sitting councillors have been deselected by party chiefs in a brutal process that has opted to discard the combined experience of 40 years’ service at the Town Hall EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor The … Continue reading →

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Labour deputy leaders Young and Collins to stand down in 2026

Posted on June 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

At least 15% of Croydon’s sitting councillors won’t be seeking election in 2026, while some are doing the ‘chicken run’ to stay on the council gravy train. EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Nearly a dozen of Croydon’s current 70 … Continue reading →

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Labour councillor’s Friends of Israel pose starts selection row

Posted on June 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

The council elections are little more than 10 months away, but suspicions of selection stitch-ups are already circulating among Croydon Labour’s members. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Between now and next May, we can all confidently expect to receive a … Continue reading →

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Labour’s task looks tough amid finance and membership woes

Posted on May 29, 2025 by insidecroydon

As Britain’s long-established political duopoly fractures, ANDREW FISHER looks at what that could mean for Croydon at its next local elections in 2026 For the past 100 years two parties have dominated British politics: the Conservatives and Labour. Since the … Continue reading →

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