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Party animal Pelling looks to run in Croydon East – for LibDems
ELECTIONS 2024: The former MP is hoping to stage a comeback in the new parliamentary seat by joining his third political party. EXCLUSIVE by our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Andrew Pelling, a former Conservative MP and Labour councillor in Croydon, … Continue reading →
Posted in 2024 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Croydon Central, Croydon East, Gavin Barwell, Inside Croydon, Jason Cummings, Natasha Irons, Peter Underwood
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Tagged #TheLabourFiles, 2024 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon East, David Evans, Gavin Barwell, General Election, General Election 2024, Green Party, Jason Cummings, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Files, Liberal Democrats, Natasha Irons, Peter Underwood, The Labour Files, Tory, Waddon
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Green Dragon residents shocked by £7,000 service charge bills
Croydon is reckoned to already have around 1,000 flats in converted office blocks, thanks to Tory relaxation of planning rules. Now residents in one block are facing the nightmare of service charges doubling to pay for safety works. By BARRATT … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Gavin Barwell, Green Dragon House, Housing, Inspired Homes, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Eric Pickles, Gavin Barwell, Green Dragon House, Housing, Inspired Homes, London, London Borough of Croydon, Martin Skinner, Michael Gove, Office-to-resi, PD, Permitted Development, Rishi Sunak, Slums of the future, Tory
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Croydon peer Barwell calls for ex-PM Truss to lose party whip
Get the pop corn, there’s another row in the Tories over ‘PopCon’, as right-whingers reveal themselves once more as ‘the Nasty Party’. By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Gavin Barwell, the former Croydon MP and now a semi-detached member of … Continue reading →
Posted in 2024 General Election, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Eton College, Gavin Barwell, KamiKwasi Kwarteng, Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz Truss, Mario Creatura, Theresa May, Tory
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Hammer blow for Whitgift Centre with new delay to masterplan
CROYDON IN CRISIS: No more ‘Death Star’-type, £1.4bn Westfield shopping mall say developers, who want to build ‘thousands’ of flats, as Paris-based firm looks for a more sustainable approach In a hammer blow to any hope of urgently rescuing the … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jean-Marie Tritant, Mayor Jason Perry, Scott Parsons, Tory, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Unpopular Croydon politician resigns from his council non-job
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE has been documenting wannabe MP Mario Creatura’s career for more than a decade, and now may be writing one of its final chapters Mario Creatura’s inexorable drift into political obscurity looked to take one of its … Continue reading →
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Luke Shortland, Mario Creatura
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Coulsdon Town, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Luke Shortland, Mario Creatura, Tory
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Croydon’s Tories opt to set up ‘Mr 15%’ Cummings for a fall
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE looks at the election chances of Croydon East’s version of ‘Captain Oates’: noble but utterly futile The party conference over for another year, one of the newest Constituency Labour Parties, Croydon East, will formally begin its … Continue reading →
Posted in 2024 General Election, Croydon East, Jason Cummings
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon East, Gavin Barwell, Jason Cummings, Michael Crick, Tory
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Cummings in bid to defy the ‘Curse of Barwell’ for selection
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the shortest of short lists for Croydon Conservative members to pick from for a parliamentary candidate Gavin Barwell’s former staffers, thrusting, keen and eager Tory politicians, must be beginning to think that there is some … Continue reading →
Posted in 2024 General Election, Croydon East, Jason Cummings
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon East, Gavin Barwell, Jason Cummings, Michael Crick, Rishi Sunak, Samia Hersi, Tory
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Top 10 of the week’s crankery, fantasies, fallacies and Tory lies
ANDREW FISHER has chronicled the most bizarre and reckless claims and misjudged announcements from this week’s Conservative Party conference The cavalcade of crankery known as the Conservative Party annual conference is over for another year. But just in case you … Continue reading →
Old Palace closure brought on by shaky Foundation finances
CROYDON IN CRISIS: There’s not much that has happened in Croydon in the last dozen years or so that cannot be traced back, in some respect, to the £1billion-plus non-development of the Whitgift Centre. And as the accounts of landowners … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, CPO, Education, Jane Burton, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Tagged Barwell, Croydon, Gavin Barwell, Old Palace School, Stiles Harold Williams, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Go Nads! Barwell enters row over right-wing MP’s resignation
Absentee peer has a pop at nine-carat ex-MP Nadine Dorries in a Twitter spat likely to spark further rows as the Conservatives look to select their parliamentary candidate for new Croydon East constituency, reports our political editor WALTER CRONXITE Gavin … Continue reading →
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon East, Gavin Barwell, Jason Cummings, Shirley South
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Tagged Barwell, Chief of Staff, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Jason Cummings, Mayor Jason Perry, Nadine Dorries, Tory
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Good Lord? Starmer’s gofer Evans is lined up for a peerage
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, delves through some silly season speculation to discover that one of Alison Butler’s exes could soon be heading for the red benches David Evans, the former Croydon business owner who was an aide to Tony … Continue reading →
Posted in Alison Butler, David Evans, Tony Newman
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Tagged #TheLabourFiles, Alison Butler, Barwell, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Evans, Deborah Mattinson, Feargal Sharkey, Gary Lineker, Gavin Barwell, Harriet Harman, House of Lords, Keir Starmer, Labour, Luciana Berger, Margaret Beckett, Margaret Hodge, Mark Drakeford, Sharon White, The Labour Files, Tony Newman
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Creatura bet his house on Banstead and didn’t make shortlist
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on the knock-back to a Tory councillor that could prove to be terminal to his huge political ambition Mario Creatura, the former parliamentary gobby factotum to Gavin Barwell, has been thwarted again in his desperate … Continue reading →
Posted in 2024 General Election, Coulsdon, Mario Creatura, Surrey
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Tagged Banstead, Barwell, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Reigate, Reigate and Banstead, Surrey, Tory
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Beckenham’s Tory MP failed to register his arms trade link
South London Conservative MP Bob Stewart found to hold directorship of Luxembourg-registered consultancy with links to convicted criminal while he was a member of influential Commons Defence Committee Col Bob Stewart, the MP for Beckenham since 2010 and already under … Continue reading →
Posted in London-wide issues
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Tagged Barwell, Beckenham, Bob Stewart MP, Conservative, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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Centrale’s owners set to sell-up to Westfield in cut-price deal
Our vacated shopping centre correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest multi-million-pound boardroom manoeuvres over Croydon’s developer-blighted North End It has taken more than a decade, but Westfield’s hostile takeover of the Centrale shopping mall in Croydon town centre looks as … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Baron Barwell does a bunk from Lords after Standards breach
More Tory sleaze, after a complaint from an iC reader leads to a finding that the politician broke the rules over his business declarations… and his Lordship isn’t saying whether his ‘leave of absence’ is in connection with something far … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Grenfell, Grenfell Tower, Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry, House of Lords, Lord Barwell, Tory
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Tory councillor group at Town Hall goes into 2023 with a WINO
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the rumblings of disquiet and discontent over a Coulsdon councillor who has put his own parliamentary ambitions ahead of council duties Mayor Jason Perry’s merry band of Tory councillors is not an altogether happy … Continue reading →
Posted in Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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Barwell tells the Tory Party: It’s time to make up your mind
Britain stands on the brink of a national breakdown, after Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister this lunchtime, following a turbulent 44 days in office during which her Mini-Budget crashed the markets, she sacked both her Chancellor and Home Secretary … Continue reading →
Posted in Gavin Barwell
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Tagged #ThickLizzy, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, Michael Gove, Rishi Sunak, Thick Lizzy Truss, Tory
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‘The Nose in Search of a Bum’ sniffs out new government job
Our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on the losers and losers in today’s government reshuffle Calls to Downing Street sources this afternoon have failed to discover anyone prepared to offer an on-the-record denial that, when he got the call from the … Continue reading →
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South
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Tagged #ThickLizzie, Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Jeremy Hunt, Kwasi Kwarteng, Labour, Liz Truss, Tory
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Croydon’s top Tory Barwell admits: I am politically homeless
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, on the Conservative peer’s criticism of the Truss government’s reckless ‘Mini-Budget’ Baron Barwell of Croydon in the London Borough of Croydon has had enough of the Conservative government. The patience of the man who was Tory … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Income Tax, Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz Truss, Lord Barwell, Mini-Budget, Tory
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‘If things go badly, a Bring Back Boris campaign will start’
Far-right comedian Joe Lycett was not available to give us his take on the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss. So instead, we turned to the doom-laden Twitter feed of Conservative peer GAVIN BARWELL “Lord” Gavin Barwell was Chief of Staff … Continue reading →
Posted in Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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M&S recruiting 130 staff ahead of opening Purley Way store
EXCLUSIVE: The company CEO’s life-long association with the Croydon store may have helped to give the beleaguered Whitgift Centre a reprieve. By STEVEN DOWNES Marks and Spencer is recruiting more than 130 staff in advance of its opening a new … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Planning, Purley Way, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Steve Rowe, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Rish! Sunak brings the Tory leadership contest to Purley
Our mole in the Croydon Conservatives was quite impressed by the flying visit of the former Chancellor. And with his shoes Liz is down in Surrey but we’re told she’ll come to visit us, too. But with a good two … Continue reading →
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Education, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, Purley, Richard Ottaway MP, Schools
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Liz Truss, Mario Creatura, Mayor, Purley, Richard Ottaway, Rish!, Rishi Sunak, Tory
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Tories’ Not-So-Famous Five offer little real hope for nation
ANDREW FISHER on the search for a new Prime Minister, and what it could all mean for Croydon The ancient Roman poet Juvenal observed that people needed “bread and circuses”. In Britain today, more people than ever are queuing for … Continue reading →
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Liz Truss, Mayor Jason Perry, Michael Gove, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Sajid Javid, Suella Braverman, Suella Fernandez, Tory
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Finally, Coulsdon’s Tory councillor Creatura cuts before he runs
Boris Johnson fanboy and former Downing Street aide to Theresa May is trying to clean up his act ahead of parliamentary selections Tory councillor Mario Creatura, for many years the “gobby factotum” to Gavin Barwell when he was a Conservative … Continue reading →
Posted in Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Theresa May, Tory
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MP Philp finally emerges to be skewered by Benny Hill theme
More on the final throes of Boris Johnson’s government from our political correspondent, WALTER CRONXITE Like Michael Fabricant’s syrup, once seen, this can never be unseen. Once heard, it certainly can never be unheard. In fact, this has been playing … Continue reading →
Posted in Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Croydon South
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Michael Fabricant's syrup, Tory
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