There’s lots of chat and speculation about who will become Labour’s candidate for the Vauxhall parliamentary constituency and therefore the likely successor to the outgoing Kate Hoey as its MP. According to one Labour contact in Lambeth “the world and his wife” are after seat, which Hoey retained at the 2017 general election with a […]
The Labour Party is investigating a member of Haringey Council’s cabinet after the council’s deputy leader complained that he had made an antisemitic remark to her. Gideon Bull, who is Haringey’s cabinet member for local investment and economic growth, is said to have commented on the stance of Zena Brabazon towards a controversial housing scheme […]
While councils across the country have been celebrating a hundred years of council housing since the Housing Act 1919, Haringey Council has been embroiled in a very contemporary housing battle. Labour councillors have been at war over plans to sell off council land and buy back housing for social rent rather than building council homes […]
Haringey Council’s scrutiny committee has backed calls for a rethink on controversial plans to sell off a council-owned site in Tottenham to private developers Magic Homes. The developers won planning permission this month to build 88 homes on a former council care home site in South Tottenham and sell 46 of them back to the […]
Haringey’s “Corbyn Council” is facing a first major battle over its housing plans – from its own members. Nine councillors from the majority Labour Group are mounting a “call-in” challenge to a controversial decision to sell a council-owned site in Tottenham to private developers Magic Homes, which would build 88 homes, selling 46 of them […]
A Haringey councillor has spoken out against a “hard left, Corbynista, Momentum-dominated” Labour Party after being expelled from it for re-tweeting Twitter output by members of the new political party, Change UK. Barbara Blake, 65, who first become involved in Labour politics in the early 1960s and has been a member for most of the […]
Haringey Council’s cabinet member for finance has stood down from his post, claiming that “imprudent” budgetary decisions have been taken “over my head” and that manifesto pledges have been “watered down or ignored”. Patrick Berryman, a former hedge fund trader who represents Bounds Green ward, also said in his resignation letter to council leader Joseph […]
A cabinet member of Haringey’s Labour Council has defied calls to step down from his role prompted by his claim that recent defections by Labour MPs had “nothing to do with antisemitism” and criticising the suspension of Chris Williamson MP for saying that his party has been “too apologetic” over the issue. Noah Tucker, who […]
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