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General Election 2017Camden School for Girls declares
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Local PoliticsWin or lose, best friends for life: The best campaign bromance of General Election 2017
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Gio Spinella‘So thank you, Tulip Siddiq, thank you for ensuring a Conservative victory’
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Local PoliticsElection night at the Camden New Journa
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Local Politics#CherSweatshirtsAtPollingStations
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AFTER the last general election we took a look at how those who had gone further afield in search of a parliamentary seat had fared at the ballot box. It’s worth doing again for this election, as over the years it has become pretty standard business for councillors and activists to gravitate towards parliament. The House of Commons is stuffed with people who passed through Camden on their way to Westminster. So while we know what happened in Hampstead and Kilburn and Holborn and St [READ ON]
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NO prizes for guessing which party emerged as the victors when Camden School for Girls in Camden Town staged a mock general election on polling day last week. The result suggests reducing the voting age to 16 here would simply lead to Labour piling on more votes in the real thing, as students from council leader Georgia Gould’s old school gave her party a landslide win in the assembly hall. Intriguingly enough, ten students at the famous school, whose alumni also includes Emma Thompson, [READ ON]
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YOU can take your pick for tweets, quotes and newspaper headlines which don’t look like they may age so well after Thursday’s general election results in north London. Our own page two headline last week rating Hampstead and Kilburn as being ‘neck and neck’ looks uninformed now Tulip Siddiq holds a majority almost as large as the one Keir Starmer went into battle with in rock solid Holborn and St Pancras. But the clipping which is being sent to the framers by the local [READ ON] -
Pic: The Secret Artist @SecretartistNW5 BEFORE we look more at the why, what, where, when about this election, for there probably needs to be a lot of that, I’ve got to say thanks to a few people. Tulip Siddiq mentioned the reporting I’ve done over the recent general elections during her victory speech, but that’s not the CNJ way… because what I do only comes about because of what we do – and that means all the reporters, the production team, the sales department [READ ON] -
ELECTION outfit of the day? Tom Copley, the Labour London Assembly member once of this parish, who went out campaigning with Karen Buck in Westminster North earlier in a Cher sweater. The first clean thing available in the wardrobe? No, he’d been planning it for weeks, having tweeted this back on 26 May! Coppers and Karen apparently both share a love Turn Back [READ ON] -
A TORY wraparound ad covering last week’s Ham and High newspaper (and web ads on both the CNJ and Ham and High websites) will not come out of the local Conservative campaign spending budget. The cost of taking over the front page of a newspaper with a picture of Theresa May would’ve made a big dent in the £13k spending cap on local campaigns, but the Conservative campaign sources say that because the ads did not mention Hampstead and Kilburn candidate Claire-Louise Leyland by name, the [READ ON] -
GET well soon to Liberal Democrat councillor Flick Rea, who was treated in the Royal Free Hospital yesterday for a broken arm after tripping over in West Hampstead while out on the campaign trail. It means for the first time in forever she won’t be at the election count tomorrow night. She stumbled over something on the ground in West End Lane and hit a lamppost as she fell. Luckily enough, a good Samaritan was passing by and was quick to help. When Flick looked up, it turned out to be [READ ON]
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ONLY a jackal would wager good money on the outcome of the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency this week. At times it has felt like a coin toss, so stay in school, kids, [READ ON] -
TWO years ago, when Labour members and the famous Ed Miliband £3-ers were asked why they were voting for Jeremy Corbyn to be the next leader of the party, many said [READ ON] -
Candidates in Hampstead and Kilburn ended the only hustings of their general election campaign with a 90-second pitch at the Granville Community Kitchen… Hugh [READ ON]
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IN the search for clues as to who will win the unpredictable Hampstead and Kilburn seat at next week’s general election, we’ve been grasping at what people who [READ ON] -
HERE’S a corker for leafletwatch as Liberal Democrat candidate Keith Angus tells voters that only he “can beat Jeremy Corbyn” in the Labour stronghold of [READ ON] -
GEORGIA Gould and Keir Starmer led another hearty delegation of Labour activists and councillors from Holborn and St Pancras north to help Tulip Siddiq on Saturday (and not [READ ON] -
IT’S meant to be about opening school fetes and eating cake at care homes, hearing the dreams of our youngest and the memories of our eldest. It’s meant to be [READ ON] -
SO how much attention is tough-enough council leader Georgia Gould getting from her new team? Are they obeying orders? She has sent at least three emails essentially urging [READ ON] -
THE outgoing leader of Camden Council, Sarah Hayward, was often said to run things with a decisively firm hand during her time in charge. But are we about to see an even [READ ON] -
JOURNALISTS across the country are crying foul during this election because – they say – Jeremy Corbyn won’t speak to them and they’ve been booed at by [READ ON] -
HAVE you seen less Camden bin bag pictures on social media in recent days because the council and Veolia are finally getting to grips with new fortnightly system and [READ ON]
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IT may not have all turned out exactly as the Conservatives in Hampstead wanted but one of the stories of general election of 2017 is surely the tag-team bromance which [READ ON]
Famous people reading the Camden New Journal (and the Islington Tribune)
Sir David Attenborough. No caption needed.
Goldie wants news on Fabric first… and he knows where to turn
Ed Balls heads straight to the unrivalled election coverage in the CNJ
Don’t disturb Dame Judi Dench when she’s reading the CNJ
Paula Radcliffe ecstatic with getting her hands on a copy of the CNJ
Helena Bonham Carter loves the Trib
Tom Watson and Steve Coogan can’t put the CNJ down for a moment
X-Factor host Dermot O’Leary gets a dose of exclusives
Actor Michael Sheen takes time out from impersonating Tony Blair and Kenneth Williams to catch up with his favourite local newspaper
Jacob Rees-Mogg never misses an issue of the CNJ
As drawn by Axel Scheffler, The Gruffalo reads the New Journal’s sister newspaper, the Islington Tribune
Tracey Emin rarely seen without a CNJ
Biaaaaanca gets hold of her favourite weekly read
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.
Let’s get literary: SIr Michael Holroyd and Margaret Drabble with their favourite local read
Felix Buxton, from Basement Jaxx, is never without his weekly CNJ
Jazzie B is down with the Islington Tribune
Writer and journalist Will Hutton makes sure he always gets all the Camden news first
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
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes can’t resist a peek.
The barman, Merlin, from First Dates. With his favourite read.
David Miliband follows all the local politics in his preferred weekly read.
Jim Broadbent caught reading his favourite local paper
Seb Coe catching up on the sports + politics news
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