Tag Archives: Nadine Dorries

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

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Reshuffle sees Philp shunted sideways to the ‘Ministry of Fun’

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the unlucky ‘escape’ in the government reshuffle for Croydon’s only Conservative MP Croydon’s only Tory MP has finally made his escape from the clutches of Priti Patel at the Home Office. There are rumours, unconfirmed, … Continue reading

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Party whip or conscience: where do our MPs stand?

This week ANDREW PELLING looks back to how – and why – our local MPs voted at Westminster on the  sensitive topic of abortion, a headline-grabbing matter that went entirely under reported by Croydon’s other media outlets In the Gilbert … Continue reading

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