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Bookies make Labour’s Davis favourite to win Mayor election

Posted on March 19, 2026 by insidecroydon

Bookmakers are taking bets on the outcome of the 2026 Croydon mayoral election, and they make Labour’s Rowenna Davis a short-priced 6-5 favourite to win at the local elections on May 7. Reform UK don’t yet even have a candidate … Continue reading →

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Red coats march on Delta Point to protest against evictions

Posted on March 18, 2026 by insidecroydon

On a visit to Croydon, the former housing secretary describes companies run by a billionaire Labour Party donor as ‘disgusting and disgraceful’, as hundreds of their tenants are served Section 21 eviction orders Angela Rayner, tipped as the next leader … Continue reading →

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Election debate: Davis v Underwood, Ruskin House, Mar 19

Posted on March 17, 2026 by insidecroydon

C O M M U N I T Y A D V E R T I S E M E N T

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LibDem candidate Howard would axe chief exec role at council

Posted on March 12, 2026 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: In our latest Andrew Fisher Interview with candidates to become Croydon Mayor in the local elections on May 7, Richard Howard says that he would work on a cross-party basis at the Town Hall, would look at ways of … Continue reading →

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‘Red v Blue’ at Town Hall elections could suffer a Green-wash

Posted on March 6, 2026 by insidecroydon

Polling day in Croydon’s local elections, including its second mayoral vote, is on May 7. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, sifts through recent opinion polls and by-election results, but has a warning from history of how ‘challenger parties’ can be swept … Continue reading →

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Davis’s Valentine’s message: I’ll mend Croydon’s broken heart

Posted on February 12, 2026 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Labour candidate issues public apology for ‘some things that my party has done in the past’ in crashing Croydon Council’s finances Rowenna Davis has revealed how she has been talking to a consortium of around 12 potential investors and … Continue reading →

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Labour issues late appeal for election candidates to volunteer

Posted on February 7, 2026 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: With little more than 12 weeks until polling day, the party of Mandelson, McSweeney and Starmer has yet to name its candidates in 11 of this borough’s 28 voting districts. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor  The Labour Party in … Continue reading →

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Labour’s Davis looks to CPO the ‘hole in the heart of Croydon’

Posted on January 29, 2026 by insidecroydon

Mayoral candidate intends to discuss a Compulsory Purchase Order of Chinese-owned property with Prime Minister on his return from Beijing. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Labour’s candidate for Croydon Mayor, Rowenna Davis, says that if elected in May she will look … Continue reading →

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Labour’s scandals and dramas reflected in Croydon politics

Posted on September 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

The 2025 Labour Party Conference begins in Liverpool on Sunday. Here, our columnist, ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, the party’s former director of policy, assesses the state of Labour little more than a year into Keir Starmer’s government. And he takes … Continue reading →

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‘Croydon: our time is coming!’ Labour’s Davis rallies her fans

Posted on September 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

So just what did Labour’s Rowenna Davis say she has to offer if she is elected Mayor of Croydon next May? KEN TOWL was at her campaign’s official launch, so that you, and Steve Reed OBE, didn’t need to be … Continue reading →

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Davis’s big launch might have been good, if only I could hear it

Posted on September 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

POLITICAL SKETCH: Ever been invited to a party when you’ve been expected to pay for your food? Or a launch event which is set up so you can neither see nor hear clearly the speakers on stage? KEN TOWL has, … Continue reading →

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Labour’s mayor candidate forced to apologise over data breach

Posted on September 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Rowenna Davis, the very well-connected Labour candidate for Croydon Mayor, this week found herself tangled up in a breach of hundreds of people’s personal data, raising questions about the competence of her campaign. By WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor Rowenna … Continue reading →

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Council pays £10,000 grant to councillor’s undeclared business

Posted on September 4, 2025 by insidecroydon

Labour councillor Tamar Barrett, who has gone nearly four years without declaring her directorship of a company, has just received a £10,000 grant from the council for services provided by her business. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council has handed … Continue reading →

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Labour makes last-gasp appeal for council election candidates

Posted on August 29, 2025 by insidecroydon

With 13 of Labour’s 34 current councillors either deselected or standing down, the party has run out of volunteers for a thankless task. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Croydon Labour has run out of candidates willing to stand for the … Continue reading →

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Labour councillor Clark is forced to seek re-election in Fairfield

Posted on August 22, 2025 by insidecroydon

With Tamar Barrett’s deselection in Thornton Heath earlier this week, 13 of Labour’s 34 councillors won’t be up for re-election next May. And one shadow cabinet member fears he will lose his Town Hall seat come polling day. By WALTER … Continue reading →

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Councillor has been breaking law on disclosures since 2022

Posted on August 19, 2025 by insidecroydon

Tamar Barrett, a company director who has been a Labour councillor for almost four years, has never submitted an accurate declaration of interest. Tonight, the councillor is seeking reselection in Thornton Heath. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES A councillor who is … Continue reading →

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Bromley by-election sees historic first Reform win in London

Posted on July 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE, on how Alan Cook’s poll success on the other side of the borough boundary is sending shock waves into Croydon They’re going to need a bigger vote… You know how, early in the original Jaws movie, … Continue reading →

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Agency spend scandal: Perry blasted for ‘ridiculous shambles’

Posted on July 5, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Rowenna Davis, the Labour Party’s candidate for Croydon Mayor, has described the cash-strapped council’s “runaway” spending on agency staff as “disgusting” and “unforgivable”. “It’s a ridiculous shambles,” Davis said. Davis, a councillor for Waddon ward and, … Continue reading →

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Where Mayor Perry has failed, squatters have opened park café

Posted on June 2, 2025 by insidecroydon

Squatters have taken over the café in Wandle Park. And they have been making a better job of serving the community than the council has managed in more than five years. Mayor Jason Perry first promised to have the café … Continue reading →

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‘More buckets than businesses’: readers quiz Labour’s Davis

Posted on May 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

‘What are you going to do about the Whitgift Centre?’ one of our readers asked Councillor Rowenna Davis, Labour’s recently selected candidate to stand for election as Croydon Mayor in May 2026. ‘At the moment, there’s more buckets than businesses.’ … Continue reading →

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What a load of old rubbish! And that’s just inside the Town Hall

Posted on April 17, 2025 by insidecroydon

There’s only a handful of opportunities each year for the public to question the way their council is being run, but as ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, discovered when watching last night’s full council meeting, it is increasingly obvious that the … Continue reading →

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82% of Labour members back Davis as 2026 Mayor candidate

Posted on April 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

The 2026 Croydon Mayoral contest began in earnest today when Labour finally got round to naming their chosen candidate EXCLUSIVE by WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor To the surprise of absolutely nobody – except perhaps Manju Shahul-Hameed – Rowenna Davis has … Continue reading →

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Labour blocks members from questioning mayoral candidates

Posted on April 10, 2025 by insidecroydon

Our Political Editor, WALTER CRONXITE, sneaked in at the back of Labour’s Zoom room last night to discover what the party’s 2026 mayoral candidates might have to offer to the people of Croydon, and found himself in a dystopian bonus … Continue reading →

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Labour sticks with Anonyvoter to choose its mayor candidate

Posted on April 8, 2025 by insidecroydon

Labour’s inexplicably delayed selection process to choose a candidate to run for Croydon Mayor in 2026 enters its final stages tomorrow, but without the party holding a single in-person selection meeting with the pair of wannabes, councillors Rowenna Davis and … Continue reading →

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‘We need a Mayor who puts people first’ says Labour’s Davis

Posted on March 31, 2025 by insidecroydon

Rowenna Davis has emerged as the front-runner in the race for selection to be Labour’s candidate for next year’s Croydon mayoral elections. A councillor for Waddon since 2022, Davis announced over the weekend that she has been shortlisted in her … Continue reading →

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