Evening update 25.04.15: An excursion to Thanet
KNIGHTY KNIGHT IN KENT THE Conservatives may talk about Hampstead and Kilburn being one of their key targets at the general election, if not the main one. But, for special [...]
Claire-Louise Leyland
Morning update 21.04.15: Off message. On message.
NO EGGING HIM ON SIR Keir Starmer did not look too impressed when he was introduced as a candidate who had been fast-tracked into a safe seat when the candidates in Holborn [...]
Camden full council: live updates
April 13, 2015 21.47: It’s been a half hour to sit back and just watch these guys, mainly staring into their phones and ipads – so hopefully they weren’t [...]
Morning update 11.04.15: The word on the street… and the farm, and the TV studio
MISSING MAAJID IF last night was Thursday, then it was the Queens Park Resident Association hustings for the increasingly battle-weary election candidates in Hampstead and [...]
Morning update 08.04.15: Claire-Louise lands in N.I.; Tulip lands in the Standard (again)
WELCOME TO WEST TYRONE CAMDEN’S Conservative leader Claire-Louise Leyland’s general election adventure in West Tyrone has begun. As you will have read in the New [...]
Morning update 24.03.15: White guys drive unlicensed minicabs too
TFL ASKED TO EXPLAIN WHY ITS BAD GUYS ARE NEVER WHITE THEY are beginning to to whistle why are we waiting around City Hall after London Mayor Boris Johnson and his officers [...]
Leader of Camden Tories to stand for Parliament
IT already seems so long ago but back in the autumn, if you had to guess which of Camden’s political group leaders would be on the ballot papers at May’s general [...]
Morning update 23.03.15: All we are saaaying…
JESSICA FOR PRESIDENT IT was another weekend to wonder whether Jessica Learmond-Criqui, the spirited community campaigner, will ever run for election, somewhere, some time. [...]
Camden full council: live updates
March 2, 2015 22.00: All done for tonight. Strong start to the meeting with the sign of a genuine debate on the London Living Wage. Then we had the budget debate: there was a [...]
Camden pay-off deals raised in Parliament
THE mystery thickens on Camden Council’s secret pay-off deals. In recent weeks, we’ve seen both Lib Dem councillor Flick Rea and Conservative group leader [...]