Labour members call for vote in leadership contest
FIVE weeks and a day until Camden Labour group’s AGM and hopes among Haywardites that the idea of a leadership challenge would have fizzled out by Easter have not [...]
Sally Gimson
On loving Leicester
THE looming leadership challenge hanging over Camden’s Labour group seemed to be off limits when Sarah Hayward sat down for a profile interview with the Ham [...]
Sadiq and ‘brilliant’ Sarah
AS a leadership contest looms in Camden’s Labour group with the emergence last week of Sally Gimson as a potential challenger, what happy chance for the current leader, [...]
Confirmed: Sally ‘seriously considering’ leadership challenge
After all those rumours, Sally Gimson has confirmed today that she is ‘seriously considering’ challenging council leader Sarah Hayward at the Labour group’s [...]
It’s only January 24…
CAMDEN’S Labour group were split this week over lifting the basic pay of councillors. Council leader Sarah Hayward, who as it goes is one of the lowest paid full time [...]
Away from home
LONG time, no post, but that’s because I’ve been distracted by the day job. After the annual Christmas slowdown, the news mill bounces back into an unrelentless [...]
‘Good luck getting Richard Branson to sponsor our toilets…’
IF the penny hadn’t dropped already, it may be dawning on new council cabinet member Meric Apak what a hospital pass he has been given with the environment brief. He [...]
The fair weather fans hit back
ANDREW Gimson, the Tory-leaning writer from Gospel Oak, could definitely be made out cheering on his Labour councillor wife, Sally, in the politicians vs journalists charity [...]
Morning update 12.10.15: Can Dan Thomas make the London Assembly more interesting?
* Dan Thomas wins landslide selection vote in Barnet and Camden
* Time to leave the UK for two years? Emily Thornberry waves #BringBackBlair son off to Rwanda
* Andrew Gimson's open house * The republicans who bow to the Queen [...]
Morning update 29.09.15: Tulip vs Sian
WHO IS NEGLECTING WHO? AS mentioned a couple of posts ago, new Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq has been ramping up the media appearances in recent weeks. She was on the [...]