Sadiq’s win: A Labour purge of a different kind?
THE revolutionaries say that people compared Sadiq Khan nominating Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership with Tessa Jowell accepting a seat in the House of Lords and the [READ ON]
David Lammy
You there under the parasol? I’m the one trade unionists want to be Mayor
ANYTHING David Lammy can do in the race to be Labour’s mayoral candidate, Tessa Jowell will at least try to do better. And so, just a couple of weeks after David [READ ON]
You there eating the sandwich? I’m not sure about HS2
LABOUR mayoral hopeful David Lammy popped up at Euston this week to remind people that he has doubts about the £50 billion HS2 rail scheme. Full marks to his press team here [READ ON]
Hampstead and Kilburn nominates Yvette Cooper
THINGS got tight last night when Labour members in the Hampstead and Kilburn branch met to nominate a candidate in the party’s leadership contest. In the end, Yvette [READ ON]
The famous five and the ace of diamonds
YOU can’t even pop down to Crouch End to buy some artisan sourdough and an overpriced coffee on a Saturday morning without bumping into Emily Thornberry. And Frank [READ ON]
All is forgiven? Tottenham parliamentary candidate poses with Sol Campbell
THE Tories pulled out of St Pancras earlier with a coachload of campaigners heading to Thanet South in a bid to try and douse UKIP Nigel Farage’s parliamentary [READ ON]
H & St P: The final five
IF Labour’s parliamentary selection contest in Holborn and St Pancras was X-Factor, and we know from her tweets that Sarah Hayward is partial to a bit of X-Factor, the [READ ON]
H & St P: ‘Day one’
GIVEN how long we’ve been banging on about it, it seems strange that Labour’s parliamentary selection contest in Holborn and St Pancras was only officially [READ ON]
Catherine West vs Lynne Featherstone… day one
IT was a big day for Islington Council leader Catherine West yesterday, as she was chosen as the Labour parliamentary candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green. If she had [READ ON]
Lynne’s lost invite.
THE morning after the Whittington march, I had a knock at the front door. It was two Haringey Liberal Democrats who I hadn’t met before. They had no doubt seen the New [READ ON]
Richard Osley 