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Oliver LewisRebellion over Labour selections halted… by a handful of votes
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Local PoliticsLabour open candidate selection process to women
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Danny BealesThe new, new Camden cabinet
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Lorna RussellA quiet evening in Fortune Green: Sorin Floti selected
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Phil Jones54 becomes 53 as Phil Jones decides to step down from council
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YOU can bet everything you own and more on Labour holding its three seats in King’s Cross at next May’s council elections, so last night’s selection meeting was essentially picking a new councillor, as much as a new candidate. So welcome to the world of Camden politics Georgie Robertson who won the members vote last night. She had originally been tipped to stand in West Hampstead, a ward which is still waiting for candidates after last week’s aborted selection meeting. [READ ON]
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SO where are we with Labour’s arduous attempts to construct its council elections team? Last Thursday, Roger Robinson, Paul Tomlinson and Samata Khatoon were re-selected to stand in Somers Town under the new autos system – with Cllr Robinson surely on course now to set some kind of long service record. The three sitting councillors in Regent’s Park enjoyed a pass too, the previous evening. Oliver Lewis was re-selected in Highgate on Wednesday as well, and will be joined on [READ ON]
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COUNCIL leader Georgia Gould will today line up her new cabinet at the Town Hall in their new positions... just 127 days after announcing her first new cabinet in May. While places on the executive are decided by an internal vote of Labour councillors, the actual portfolios are these days dealt down from the leader. While the job titles are due to be altered here and there with some council babble, headline changes will see Meric Apak taken off bins, one of the key issues which the Tories will [READ ON] -
A CALMER night for Camden’s Labour Party this evening as sitting councillors Richard Olszewski and Lorna Russell were re-selected as candidates in Fortune Green, and new face Sorin Floti was chosen. Big Phil Turner, the former leader of the council, always says he doesn’t really want to return to the council’s green benches, although only the unrivalled durability of Lib Dem councillor Flick Rea stopped it from becoming a reality in this ward in 2012. He was on the list again [READ ON] -
I BLAME last night’s dreary council meeting, as much as I’m told it’s for other reasons. I wouldn’t blame anybody in the room for sitting through that and deciding they could achieve more elsewhere. Yesterday the quietly influential Labour councillor Phil Jones, however, was only meant to be stepping down from Georgia Gould’s cabinet, but still standing for re-election as a ward councillor at next May’s council elections. This evening, he’s reportedly [READ ON] -
WHILE it was a sleepy night in the council chamber yesterday evening – even by the standards of Camden’s full council meetings, last night’s session was one devoid of all fire and passion – a more chaotic scene was developing at West Hampstead Library. There, a Labour Party candidate selection meeting ahead of next year’s boroughwide elections was shut down without conclusion as protesting members complained that the process was flawed and they had not been given a [READ ON] -
FORMER Camden councillor Chris Philp was so excited in his slamming of the borough’s MPs, Sir Keir Starmer and Tulip Siddiq, over Brexit that he stumbled into conjuring up a new constituency of Holborn and Kilburn, or something like that. As Ms Siddiq heckled ‘that’s why you lost’, Mr Philp, now a Conservative MP in Croydon, corrected himself, reminding the House of Commons that he had stood there in 2010. You’d think losing an election by only 42 votes would be [READ ON]
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THE secret is out. Councillors, presumably driven to a search for anaesthetic by some of the deathly-dull meetings at the Town Hall, took part in secret boozy interludes. [READ ON] -
NO surprises at the Town Hall this evening as Danny Beales and Adam Harrison were elected to the cabinet. Well done to them, after coming through three rounds of voting in [READ ON] -
TONIGHT we learn who will take those two cabinet slots at the Town Hall and then it’s the full council meeting – a chance for Theo Blackwell to say goodbye to us all, [READ ON]
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THE first candidates for Labour’s council elections team will finally be selected this week. It’s always a bit of a bruising process and even before it kicks off [READ ON] -
THE noon deadline for Labour councillors to apply for the Camden Council cabinet elections has just passed, but not before a fifth candidate entered the race. Licensing chair [READ ON] -
SUE Vincent, the former deputy leader of the council, has shaken things right up this afternoon by announcing she will join the race for those two open spots on the Town Hall [READ ON] -
SIOBHAN Baillie – seen as a of a rising star in the Conservative ranks – has become the latest councillor to announce that her future lies away from the Town [READ ON] -
AWALE Olad fans out there, stand down. He baldly tweeted yesterday that he has no interest in standing for the vacant slots in Camden Council’s decision-making [READ ON] -
LITTLE more than three months after putting together her first cabinet as Camden Council leader Georgia Gould has the job of patching up a new one after one executive member [READ ON] -
PHIL Jones last night became the second councillor in as many days to quit Georgia Gould’s cabinet at the Town Hall. He told colleagues that he wants to concentrate on [READ ON] -
IS it controversial that Abdul Hai, one of the ten most senior councillors at Camden Council has taken a director job at the company behind the giant redevelopment of [READ ON]
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THE debate rumbles on inside Camden’s Labour as to how far the net was really cast to find suitable candidates to stand at next year’s council elections. A sore [READ ON]
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Sir David Attenborough. No caption needed.
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Tracey Emin rarely seen without a CNJ
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Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in Lord of the Rings, likes the film page.
The Kinks’ legend Ray Davies with his favourite weekly read
Woody Allen hanging out in Kentish Town, hoping he’s got to the dispenser before the last New Journal goes.
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Felix Buxton, from Basement Jaxx, is never without his weekly CNJ
Jazzie B is down with the Islington Tribune
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Michael Foot reads the ‘Save The Journal’ editions as the New Journal came to life from industrial action in the 1980s
Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi follows the latest planning news in the Trib
Labour leader Ed Miliband reads every single word
Lord Of The Rings actor Andy ‘Gollum’ Serkis with his precious
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The barman, Merlin, from First Dates. With his favourite read.
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