Tag Archives: Paul Scully

MP hands Westminster job to councillor who donated £3,000

It’s ‘jobs for the boy’ in Sutton, as new LibDem MP Taylor is accused of a stitch-up over the recruitment to a tax-payer-funded staff positon of a chum who made a £3,000 donation to his election campaign. By CARL SHILTON, … Continue reading

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LibDem Taylor rattled as questions of religion won’t go away

Hustings? What hustings? Across the two constituencies in Sutton, there has been only one public meeting organised ahead of Thursday’s General Election, in the hotly-contested Sutton and Cheam constituency, where it all kicked off when someone posed a question of … Continue reading

Posted in 2024 General Election, Carshalton and Wallington, David Campanale, Elliot Colburn, London-wide issues, Luke Taylor MP, Outside Croydon, Paul Scully MP, Sutton and Cheam, Sutton Council, Tom Drummond | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Latest poll predicts the implausible with Philp doing Houdini act

Labour candidates have been briefed to say nothing or to claim ‘Nuffink to do wiv me, Guv’ is their best way of dodging questions about their party’s bankrupting the borough, as the campaign crawls its way towards its final week. … Continue reading

Posted in 2024 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Ben Taylor, Bobby Dean, Chris Philp MP, Croydon East, Croydon South, Croydon West, Ellie Reeves MP, Elliot Colburn, Luke Taylor MP, Natasha Irons, Paul Scully MP, Sarah Jones MP, Sutton and Cheam | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

LibDems have gone all parochial in Sutton, just as they like it

The national election campaign as it is being conducted in neighbouring Sutton has a very local feel to it, according to NICK MATTEY, Beddington’s independent councillor Here in Sutton, the campaign leading up to polling day on July 4 in … Continue reading

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Reigate, Kingston, Sutton: the seats facing ‘The Croydon Effect’

In the second part of our General Election Special, WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, casts his expert eye further afield, to Sutton and Bromley, and even into the Surrey stockbroker belt Compared with Croydon, it’s an entirely different political landscape in … Continue reading

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After ‘el bow’, MP Scully takes aim at Conservatives’ ‘bell-ends’

By our political editor, WALTER CRONXITE Paul Scully, the Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam, won’t be standing at the next General Election. In a lengthy social media posting this morning, Scully accused the Tory Party of being “fuelled by … Continue reading

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Post Office scandal: ‘I wept for a few hours’ says Tory MP

Millions of television viewers have been horrified by the impact of the Horizon IT scandal, brought to their screens this week in a shocking mini-series. According to one MP, the government can’t do enough for ‘those who have been pummeled … Continue reading

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Exasperated MP Scully sorely wounded by the ‘Spanish archer’

MP Paul Scully won’t be writing a political memoir. He says he’s already recounted all of his ministerial career in 13 tweets, posted just after 8.30 last night, when he revealed he’d been sacked (“got the Spanish archer”, as he … Continue reading

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After a 38-hour pause for thought, Philp quits government

THE LONG GOODBYE: Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on a display of craven self-interest that managed to surpass all previous efforts by the Tory MP for Croydon South At long last, at 8.06 this morning, it happened. Chris Philp joined the … Continue reading

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