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Tag Archives: Gavin Barwell
Barwell’s Downing Street book is promising ‘revelations’
Gavin Barwell, the author of the less-than-acclaimed How To Lose A Marginal Seat, has been signed up to write another book. As if the £305 per day attendance allowance at the House of Lords was not enough, nor the various … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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French boardroom revolution could force Westfield sell-off
By STEVEN DOWNES It is looking increasingly likely that Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield will look to unload any interests they hold in the long-promised £1.4billion redevelopment scheme for Croydon town centre. It is almost two years since URW decided to “review” the already … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Xavier Niel
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Newman leaves it to others to clear up as he quits as leader
TOWN HALL SKETCH: Finally, reluctantly, Croydon’s council leader agrees to stand down. But, as STEVEN DOWNES reports, Tony Newman might hang around for a while yet, ‘like a fart in a lift’ It was barely 10 minutes in, and this … Continue reading →
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman
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Tagged Alison Butler, Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Tories in call for Town Hall meeting and Newman’s resignation
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how the borough’s Conservative opposition appears to be waking from its slumbers, as the council leader is accused of ‘reckless financial mismanagement’ Jason Perry, in his first significant act as leader of the Conservative … Continue reading →
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
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Tagged Barwell, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Jason Perry, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Simon Hall, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Tories issue plea to members to help them ‘fill our hole’
Croydon’s Tories are calling for Tony Newman to stand down as council leader immediately, saying the Town Hall finances “are in an appalling state”. But with the slapstick comic timing of Frank “Ooo Betty” Spencer, the Conservatives’ criticism of Newman … Continue reading →
Ex-councillor admits he was wrong over Westfield scheme
A former deputy council leader has spoken publicly about their deep regret for their part in bringing developers, such as Westfield, to their town centre, leaving it as “a tragedy of a place now”. “There’s plenty of nostalgia and lots … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Boris Johnson, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Planning, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Bradford, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Labour councillors signal major Town Hall U-turn over Westfield
Croydon Council is preparing to complete a full 180-degree U-turn over their position on Westfield and the long-promised and undelivered £1.4billion temple to consumerism in the town centre. “It makes sense for radical overhaul of the proposals for Croydon,” was … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Sean Fitzsimons, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sean Fitzsimons, Stuart Collins, Tony Newman, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Former Barwell aide tweets his support for ‘Tommy Robinson’
Shaun Bailey, the very dim Tory candidate for London Mayor, came in for another round of criticism last night after his Twitter account posted praise for the supporters of far-right racist extremist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known to some as “Tommy Robinson”. … Continue reading →
Posted in Coulsdon, Coulsdon West, Gavin Barwell, Ian Parker, Mario Creatura
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Ian Parker, London Assembly, Mario Creatura, Mayor, Shaun Bailey, Tory
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£1.4bn scheme loses supporter as Hammerson chief quits
Our closed-down-shops-and-malls correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on another potentially damaging turn of events for those who still hold out hope that the town centre might be ‘regenerated’ with a new shopping centre While council leader Tony Newman was gilding the lily … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, David Atkins, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Desperate Newman needs Westfield Mk IV to save his skin
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the France-based international shopping mall owners, have given council leader Tony Newman “a very positive letter” about the company’s commitment to Croydon – despite having left the town centre in a state of development blight for almost a decade. … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Debenhams, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Centrale’s Debenhams to remain closed after lockdown ends
Our demise-of-high-street-retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, says that there’s no coming back from the latest hammer blow to the £1.4bn town centre regeneration scheme Coronavirus claimed another victim last night: Debenhams in Croydon. In truth, the department store, which has been … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Debenhams, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Tagged Barwell, Croydon, Croydon Central, Debenhams, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Business is booming for housing lobbyist ‘Barren’ Barwell
Despite the lockdown on business prompted by covid-19, like “Lord” Gavin Barwell, the former Croydon Central Tory MP and author of How To Lose A Marginal Seat. In less than six months since being elevated to the House of Lords … Continue reading →
Posted in Business, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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Scaled-down town centre development could take 10 years
MT WALLETTE, our unbuilt shopping malls correspondent, reports on the deep hole that Croydon has got itself into over the aborted Westfield development Croydon Council has allowed itself to be mugged by a couple of multi-national developers, and has handed … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Housing, Jason Perry, Jo Negrini, London-wide issues, Mario Creatura, Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tim Pollard, Tony Newman, Tory, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Wait-field: now Labour council leader Newman calls it a ‘mess’
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 →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Jo Negrini, Jules Pipe, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Jules Pipe, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Tony Newman, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Barwell cashes in on his ‘expertise’ as an ex-housing minister
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 →
Posted in Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Housing
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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Westfield scale down plans, leaving Croydon a ‘dead duckling’
A day early, Croydon has suffered a Valentine’s Day massacre, as the French owners of Westfield announced a multi-billion reshaping of their investment plans – with their Croydon project described as a “£1.5billion dead duckling”. And it seems Croydon Council … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Jo Negrini, Labour, Tony Newman, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Stewart is latest Tory to ignore allegations against SPAC Nation
Croydon North MP Steve Reed will use this afternoon’s adjournment debate in the House of Commons about the controversial cult-like SPAC Nation to demand to know “how young people at risk right now will be protected, how traumatised victims will … Continue reading →
Posted in 2020 London elections, Church and religions, Croydon North, Mayor of London, Rory Stewart, Steve Reed MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Gavin Barwell, Jayde Edwards, Labour, Mario Creatura, Rory Stewart, SPAC Nation, Steve Reed OBE, Tim Pollard
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‘Barren’ Barwell is not fit to sit on housing association board
Gavin Barwell, a “not very successful career politician”, should never have been appointed to the board of Clarion, the country’s largest housing association. That’s the view of Rob Gershon, a prominent activist for tenants’ rights, in a devastating critique of … Continue reading →
Barwell jumps on housing gravy train before Grenfell inquiry
No sooner had “Baron” Barwell been kicked upstairs to the House of Lords and their generous £305 daily allowances, than he’s now jumped on the gravy train by taking a juicy directorship with the country’s largest housing association. It is … Continue reading →
Posted in Gavin Barwell, Housing
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Tagged Barwell, Clarion Housing, Conservative, Gavin Barwell, Tory
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Tory peer spends weekend trolling Labour MP over Corbyn
The rancour and recriminations over the General Election outcome could fester on for some time if last weekend’s jibes and insults on social media are anything to go by, as WALTER CRONXITE reports Two old men have had a Twitter … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 General Election, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory
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Tory Creatura accused of homophobic and racist prejudice
Mario Creatura, Theresa May’s former Twit-in-Chief in Downing Street, has been accused of publishing a litany of homophobic, sexist and racist views. The bulging file full of cuttings and clippings, some going back more than 10 years, demonstrate under-lying bigotry … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Labour, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP, Tory
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£2.5bn fund closure is bad news for Croydon’s Westfield hopes
The doubts about whether the Westfield redevelopment of Croydon’s Whitgift Centre will ever begin grew even greater this week, as one of the country’s biggest property funds began blocking investors from making withdrawals, blaming both Brexit and the retail downturn … Continue reading →
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Paul Scott, Planning, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre
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Tagged Allders, Barwell, Boris Johnson, Centrale, Conservative, Croydon Council, Gavin Barwell, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Paul Scott, Tony Newman, Tory, Unibail Rodamco, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Labour looking strong as freezing polling day approaches
As we enter the final week of the General Election campaign, political editor WALTER CRONXITE gets a guide on the likely results from the pollsters and the bookmakers Next Thursday’s polling day for the General Election is predicted to have … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 General Election, Anna Jones, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Donald Ekekhomen, Gavin Barwell, Mario Creatura, Olga Fitzroy, Paul Scott, Planning, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman
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Tagged Anna Jones, Barwell, Boris Johnson, Brexit Party, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mario Creatura, Member of parliament, Olga Fitzroy, Paul Scott, Peter Underwood, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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Stormzy’s Glastonbury slogans become rallying call for Labour
Stormzy has thrown his support behind Labour and called on people to register to vote to “end austerity, rebuild our communities and take back the means to change our lives for the better”. Stormzy, recently voted the coolest bloke in … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 General Election, Croydon Central, Gavin Barwell, Sarah Jones MP
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Tagged Barwell, Conservative, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, Sarah Jones MP, Stormzy, Tory
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Brexit Party pulls switch to detonate Creatura’s election chance
WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest piece of ‘genius’ from the BBC’s most-favoured politician, Nigel Farage A former army bomb disposal expert could be about to explode Tory Mario Creatura’s dream of becoming an MP. Nominations for candidates for the … Continue reading →
Posted in 2019 General Election, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Mario Creatura, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP
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Tagged Barwell, Boris Johnson, Brexit Party, Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon North, Croydon South, Gavin Barwell, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Creatura, Peter Sonnex, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, Tory, UKIP
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