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Tag Archives: Chuka Umunna
Davey, Pidgeon, Umunna all cave-in over Twitter smears
CARL SHILTON on how support for the Sutton and Cheam LibDem candidate’s nasty smear campaign started to evaporate, following challenges through formal complaints and threats of libel action It started yesterday, around noon time. The first of the offending social … Continue reading
MPs asked to declare as Labour goes on election footing
Sarah Jones and Steve Reed OBE have been given a fortnight to decide whether they want to be a parliamentary candidate at the next election and to inform Labour, as the party led by Jeremy Corbyn gets itself ready to … Continue reading
Croydon Labour MP Reed is quick to reject Umunna’s splitters
STEVEN DOWNES on reactions and responses to the not-so-magnificent seven’s resignation from the Labour Party The bitter, decade-long personal, political feud between Chuka Umunna and Steve Reed OBE may have played a significant factor in the former vice-chair of Progress … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, Croydon North, Jack Buck, London-wide issues, Sadiq Khan, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Chuka Umunna, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Labour, London, Mayor, Steve Reed OBE
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Umunna gets the call as ‘special guest’ to pep up Reed’s rally
WALTER CRONXITE on the snail-like progress of Labour’s selection process, UKIP’s choice of Barwell’s bouncer as a General Election candidate, and news from neighbouring constituencies Nearly five years since he was selected as Labour’s candidate in the very safe seat … Continue reading
Posted in 2017 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon North, Croydon South, Kathleen Garner, Lambeth Council, Michael Swadling, Paul Scully MP, Peter Staveley, Steve Reed MP, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Winston McKenzie
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MP Reed clings to shadow job under ‘unelectable’ Corbyn
Never let it be said that Steve Reed OBE isn’t a… hmm… let’s call him a pragmatic politician. Although many others might regard him as a political chameleon or, worse, a hypocrite. Just a few weeks after declaring that Jeremy … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Chuka Umunna, Conservative, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Member of parliament, Progress, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham, Tory
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One more vote and Goyal may not have played the race card
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The All People’s Party is coming to Croydon, by way of disaffected black and minority ethnic community members in nearby Bermondsey and Peckham, led by former Labour donor Prem Goyal. For JAMES GILL, pictured right, the reasons for … Continue reading
91 police taken off Croydon’s streets claims Miliband
Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour party, visited Croydon this morning and accused the Conservatives of leaving residents at risk by taking 91 police officers off the beat in the borough – all despite the 2011 riots. Miliband is … Continue reading
Croydon North will be a “two-horse race” says Umunna
Chuka Umunna, Labour’s business spokesman, used a visit to a youth training business in Croydon this morning to dismiss Respect’s entry into the Croydon North by-electioncampaign. “We regard this as likely to be a two-horse race,” said Umunna, the MP … Continue reading