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Inside Croydon goes in search of the ‘real’ Andy Burnham
ANDREW FISHER has spent the week at the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool, where the new Prime Minister continued to confound political editors and expert pundits A Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynite walk into bar. The barman asks: … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Burnham MP, Angela Rayner MP, Croydon, Ed Miliband, Empty Dwelling Management Orders, Gaza, Gaza genocide, Help to Buy, Housing, John Healey MP, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Party Conference, Lambeth council, Liverpool, London, Palestine, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Sir Keir Starmer, Your First Home
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Shadow of Starmer lingers over Labour Conference in Liverpool
A year ago, Andy Burnham was seen scurrying away from the Labour Party Conference, scorned by loyal Starmerites. Today, he makes a speech to the 2026 conference as Prime Minister. ANDREW FISHER reports from Liverpool exclusively for Inside Croydon on … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Burnham MP, Angela Rayner MP, Croydon, Ed Miliband, Empty Dwelling Management Orders, Gaza, Gaza genocide, Help to Buy, Housing, John Healey MP, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Party Conference, Lambeth council, Liverpool, London, Palestine, Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Your First Home
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Social media ban is the chance to reclaim children’s childhoods
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The government wants stronger controls on how under-16s use their phones. KEN TOWL welcomes the move We are arming our kids with weapons we hardly understand and, up to now, the rules around these weapons have been principally … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Ken Towl, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Elon Musk, Facebook, Ken Towl, Molly Rose Foundation, Online Safety Act, Sir Keir Starmer, SnapChat, Social media ban, TikTok, Twitter, X
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End for ‘Uncle Keir’ leaves Croydon MPs scrambling for jobs
Political Editor WALTER CRONXITE on how Croydon’s Labour politicians responded to the Prime Minister announcing his resignation Keir today, gone tomorrow. And for Croydon’s right-wing Labour MPs, the scramble to preserve their positions, or to gain some favour under Keir … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon East, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Stuart King
Tagged 'Uncle Keir', Andy Burnham, Cllr Stuart King, Councillor Stuart King, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon East, Croydon West, Downing Street, Keir Starmer, Labour, London, Makerfield, Morgan McSweeney, Natasha Irons MP, No10, No10 Downing Street, Paul Holden, Prime Minister, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, STUART KING, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy
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Burnham’s election could make all the difference in Croydon
Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election this week. Here, ANDREW FISHER outlines what the result could mean for Britain, and for Croydon and its politicians When I interviewed journalist Peter Geoghegan earlier this month, I put to him that his … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Andy Burnham, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Green Party, Josh Simons, Keir Starmer, Labour, Labour Together, London, London Borough of Croydon, Makerfield, Manchester, Mayor of Great Manchester, Morgan McSweeney, Reform, Rowenna Davis, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed MP, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, The Andrew Fisher Column, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy
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‘Wake up’ call from Croydon MP as she backs PM ‘Uncle Keir’
As health secretary Wes Streeting considers resigning from government, possibly triggering a leadership challenge, Steve Reed, Sarah Jones and Natasha Irons are backing Starmer “Uncle” Keir Starmer is clinging on to the job of Prime Minister, probably grateful for the … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Croydon East, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged 'Uncle Keir', Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner, Croydon, Croydon East, Croydon West, Downing Street, Ellie Sandover, Keir Starmer, King's Speech, Labour, London, Natasha Irons MP, No10, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Keir Starmer, State Opening of Parliament, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Wes Streeting, Yvette Cooper
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Keir Starmer’s niece is council election candidate in safe ward
Party members in Croydon’s second safest Labour ward express concern over the deselection of their sitting councillor, to be replaced with a 20-something with friends in high places. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Sir Keir Starmer’s niece is a local election … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Bensham Manor, Croydon East, Croydon West, Ellie Sandover, Enid Mollyneaux, Eunice O'Dame, Humayun Kabir, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP
Tagged 2026 council elections, 2026 local elections, Alison Butler, Bensham Manor, Croydon, Croydon Council, Downing Street, Ellie Sandover, Enid Mollyneaux, Eunice O'Dame, Keir Starmer, Labour, London, No10 Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer
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Households facing £1,500 in extra bills thanks to Trump’s war
Donald Trump’s war on Iran could cost British households £1,500 each this year if it is allowed to continue, according to reports today. With petrol prices at the pumps rising by at least 8p per litre by the weekend, despite … Continue reading
Cabinet Office to ‘look at the facts’ of Reed’s Labour Together
Journalist who wrote The Fraud calls for any investigation to be conducted completely independently of the government or Labour Party Six months after journalist Paul Holden revealed that he had been followed by private investigators, today the Cabinet Office said … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabinet Office, Croydon, Croydon North, Jeffrey Epstein, Josh Simons MP, Keir Starmer, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Morgan McSweeney, Paul Holden, Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Sunday Times, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy
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MP Reed gets dragged into the scandal over Peter Mandelson
The Croydon MP and friend of Morgan McSweeney is ‘disingenuous’ in his claims over how his aide blocked debate about the controversial appointment of Ambassador to the United States. By STEVEN DOWNES, Editor, Inside Croydon Mostly, here at Inside Croydon, … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Dominic Curran, Downing Street, Epstein Files, Good Morning Britain, ITV, ITV News, Jeffrey Epstein, Keir Starmer, Labour, Lord Mandelson, MHCLG, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Morgan McSweeney, Oscar Harman, Peter Mandelson, Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Streatham and Croydon North CLP, Susanna Reid, The Fraud, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, Thornton Heath
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Starmer visits Ikea Croydon – but not to assemble new cabinet
Keir Starmer, the son of a tool-maker, managed a quick, and secretive, visit to Ikea in Croydon this morning. It was suggested that he may have been looking for a new cabinet, because the one he’s got in Downing Street … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Croydon East, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Rowenna Davis, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Croydon, Croydon East, Croydon West, Ikea, Keir Starmer, Natasha Irons MP, Prime Minister, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North
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In one-hour interview, pandering PM Starmer offers no answers
Columnist ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, begins the New Year doing a spot of TV reviewing, and reveals how four of Croydon’s mayoral candidates will be invited to take part in his podcast interviews To start 2026, we were treated to … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, 2026 Croydon Mayor election, Andrew Fisher
Tagged Andrew Fisher, BBC, Conservative, Croydon, Green Party, Keir Starmer, Labour, Laura Kuenssberg, Liberal Democrats, London, London Borough of Croydon, Sir Keir Starmer, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, Tory
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Reed’s loyal Streatham SPAD gets transferred into No10
Political Editor WALTER CRONXITE on a Whitehall transfer which may have considerable significance Steve Reed, the MP for Streatham (and Croydon North if he can be bothered), who has been implicated in spying on his colleague councillors in Lambeth and … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Mike Bonello, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North, Tony Newman, Woodside
Tagged Croydon, Downing Street, Green Party, Keir Starmer, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mike Bonello, Morgan McSweeney, No10, No10 Downing Street, Oscar Harman, Paul Holden, Sir Keir Starmer, Southwark Council, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, The Fraud, The Fraud: Keir Starmer Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, Tony Newman, Woodside, Zack Polanski
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Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat
More than 22,000 people in Croydon claim PIP or the health element of Universal Credit. So why aren’t Croydon’s MPs opposing the government cuts? ANDREW FISHER, right, looks at the storm gathering at Westminster for the Prime Minister Politics is … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Fisher, Croydon East, Croydon West, Natasha Irons, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Blackadder, Croydon, Croydon East, Croydon West, Keir Starmer, Natasha Irons MP, Personal Independence Payments, PIP, Sarah Jones MP, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Universal Credit
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As Marx (Groucho rather than Karl) once said: ‘Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others!’
ANDREW FISHER looks at what the latest offering from Labour Party leader Keir Starmer might mean for Croydon First it was his “10 Pledges”. Then came “Five Missions”. Today Keir Starmer unveiled “Six First Steps”. Starmer may have eschewed Karl … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 General Election, Andrew Fisher, Croydon Council
Tagged 2024 General Election, Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, General Election, General Election 2024, Green New Deal, Keir Starmer, Labour, Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, Six First Steps, Starmer's 10 Pledges, Thurrock Council, Tory
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Deferential leader wants to serve power, not to challenge it
In his latest exclusive column for this website, ANDREW FISHER asks whether only two Union flags in a video on Coronation day is sufficiently obsequious for the Labour leader A Labour leader called Keir once said that, “The toady who … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Fisher, Coronation, Daniel Morgan, Jean Charles de Menezes, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell MP, Keir Hardie, Keir Starmer, Keith Starmer, KIng Charles III, KIng Charles III Coronation, Labour, Polly Toynbee, Progress, Republic, Robin Cook, Sarah Everard, Sir Keir Starmer, Tony Benn, Tony Blair
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#TheLabourFiles: anti-racism campaigner expelled by party
The second episode of Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files was a bit of a Croydon special, with cameo appearances of the local branch of the English Defence League, as well as another appearance by Croydon North MP Steve Reed, … Continue reading
#TheLabourFiles: MP Reed provided endorsement for Stanger
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North and a prime mover in the notorious “Chicken Coup” attempt to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in 2016, has been revealed as one of the party’s senior members who provided … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon North, Steve Reed MP
Tagged #TheLabourFiles, Al Jazeera, Brighton, Croydon, Croydon North, Labour, Luke Stanger, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, The Labour Files
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TV investigation uncovers Labour Party’s dirty tricks and hacks
On the eve of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, a three-part television investigation is set to rock the party’s hierarchy, from General Secretary David Evans downwards, with many shocking revelations drawn from what the producers describe as “the biggest leak … Continue reading
Part-time Perry wastes no time taking another fortnight off
Jason Perry, the part-time £81,000 per year Mayor of Croydon, is making the most of the mourning period for the Queen to ensure as little council business is discussed or debated in public. Straight after a summer recess in council … Continue reading
Reed tells nation what he won’t tell Croydon: trust the people
REFERENDUM COUNTDOWN: Croydon’s Labour politicians continue to tie themselves in knots by opposing something which just happens to be their own party’s policy. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on a keynote speech made at the party’s Brighton Conference The inherent … Continue reading
Posted in 2021 Mayor Referendum, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, South Norwood, Steve Reed MP, Tony Newman, Uncategorized
Tagged Croydon North, DEMOC, Democratically Elected Mayor for Croydon, Labour, Louis Carserides, Paul Scott, Sir Keir Starmer, Steve Reed OBE, Tony Newman
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‘Beyond farce’ as Labour purges veteran Croydon official
STEVEN DOWNES reports on the latest, and predictable, move by the Labour leadership in what is being called ‘a witch hunt’ against the left David White, one of the longest-serving Labour officials in Croydon, has been “administratively suspended” by the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Central, David Evans, David White
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Central, David Evans, David White, John McDonnell MP, Labour, Sir Keir Starmer
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