Who keeps Labour in power in Camden? The ‘bulge generation’
LABOUR councillors in Camden meet tonight for their annual general meeting. It could be one of the quickest and smoothest sessions of this kind they’ve had in a long [...]
Maeve McCormack
Labour AGM: Meric moves up; Maeve takes on Abdul
MERIC Apak will join the Labour cabinet Town Hall. As suggested on these pages before, he is the only Labour councillor to have put himself forward for a promotion at next [...]
Morning update 28.04.15: Why no billboards? Billboards are used in marginals
DID CHRIS GRAYLING CONCEDE H&K IS NOT A MARGINAL LAST NIGHT? IT wasn’t the best of evenings for the Conservatives fighting in Hampstead and Kilburn last night, [...]
Camden full council: live updates
21.58: What do you know? No time for a full debate, the Mayor announces. As per usual, the Labour majority outflank the Tories in the vote, with a heavily amended [...]
Camden on tsunami alert
THE council chamber speech of the week: Sally Gimson’s contribution to Thursday night’s planning meeting in which councillors granted permission for the new dams [...]
…give us a turn: Labour to pick new council cabinet
SARAH Hayward looked every bit the leader as she oversaw Labour’s dominating local election win in Camden on Friday night, and certainly ready to shelve that millstone [...]
Camden full council: live updates
22.01: The press bench shares the wall with the Camden Centre next door, where there sounds like a right ‘ol party going on. Music and cheering and some more cheering. [...]
‘Working together’ on Camden’s HS2 offensive
THE HS2 opposition in Camden sounded quite the love-in this week, Labour and the Lib Dems working together, hand in hand to convince shadow transport minister Maria Eagle to [...]
Toxic brands?
WHEN Labour lost its council seats in Gospel Oak in 2006, the leader of the Conservatives suggested that New Labour had in the wake of the Iraq War become, shall we say, a [...]
And so, to Gospel Oak…
SEAN Birch’s resignation from the council in Gospel Oak has raised the temperature at the Town Hall. Labour’s opponents – and hey, some of Labour’s own [...]