Tag Archives: Conservative

Council to debate Westfield after Newman’s pointless meeting

Posted on February 25, 2020 by

KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, on an attempt to block any discussion of the crisis for the town centre at next week’s full council meeting Tony Newman came back from his meeting with Westfield at City Hall yesterday empty-handed … Continue reading →

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Cummings wins Labour’s Assembly selection race by 25 votes

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on a close-run thing Patsy Cummings, the councillor for South Norwood, will be Labour’s candidate in Croydon and Sutton for the London Assembly elections in May after winning a ballot of party members in the two … Continue reading →

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Wait-field: now Labour council leader Newman calls it a ‘mess’

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on the rancour and recriminations between the borough’s third-rate politicians, desperately trying to pass the buck over the stalled £1.4bn supermall scheme, as City Hall is forced to step in to try to salvage … Continue reading →

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Barwell cashes in on his ‘expertise’ as an ex-housing minister

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

Gavin Barwell, the author of How To Lose A Marginal Seat, is sticking his snout in the trough ever deeper. Despite being firmly rejected by the voters of Croydon in 2017, the former Conservative MP and housing minister who ignored … Continue reading →

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Decision time for Labour comes too late for Davis or Cummings

Posted on February 18, 2020 by

Our political editor WALTER CRONXITE, on how a drawn-out selection process has hampered any prospects of electoral success for Labour in Croydon and Sutton in May’s elections to City Hall In a primary contest that has lasted longer than that … Continue reading →

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MP Jones calls for end to ‘permitted development’ conversions

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

Croydon Central MP Sarah Jones has called on the government to scrap “permitted development” rules which allow developers to convert offices into the “slums of the future” without the consent of local councils. Even though Croydon’s Labour-run council blocked further … Continue reading →

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Hundreds turn out to join campaign for directly elected mayor

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the mounting numbers behind a campaign seeking to change the way the council is run The patronage that keeps Croydon’s Town Hall troika of Tony Newman, Alison Butler and Paul Scott in power is looking … Continue reading →

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