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Posts Tagged: Slough

Harry Fone: Whip withdrawn on Conservative councillors in Kent – for opposing Council Tax rise

Plus: Bean bags, ping pong tables, and padded pods, in Slough’s swanky new council offices.

By Harry Fone | 23 February 2021

Peter Golds: The Electoral Commission has rewritten the law to make it difficult to investigate vote fraudsters

It has, without consultation or a change in the law, slammed shut the principal way that investigating corruption of the register may be properly conducted.

By Peter Golds | 12 November 2019 | 37 comments

Peter Golds: Voter ID for elections is long overdue

Consider the case of the man whose death was registered in Bangladesh on election day. Miraculously, his vote was recorded thousands of miles away in Tower Hamlets.

By Peter Golds | 17 October 2019 | 88 comments

Candidates selected in Alyn and Deeside, Slough, and Blackburn

A chemical engineer, a jewellery entrepreneur and former Miss India finalist, and a nurse who fought Ebola in Sierra Leone.

By Mark Wallace | 7 October 2019 | 16 comments

Lee Pettman: In Slough, residents swung to the Conservatives – as we campaigned for a cleaner, brighter, and safer town

Despite our efforts, the national picture punished us. The problems for the party are top-down, not just with the leadership, but also CCHQ.

By Lee Pettman | 23 May 2019 | 8 comments

John Strafford: This election campaign was a disaster. The Party must be radically reformed to stop it ever happening again.

Activists were directed to seats which there was no chance of us winning. It is quite clear that CCHQ did not have a clue about what was happening.

By John Strafford | 26 June 2017 | 118 comments

Sunder Katwala: Will the Conservatives have more ethnic minority MPs than Labour after this election?

The Tories are making gradual rather than spectacular progress on ethnic diversity – as the party’s class of 2017 looks set to prove.

By Sunder Katwala | 10 May 2017 | 40 comments

Selections today in Redditch and Exeter

Plus: we profile the latest tranche of newly selected candidates.

By Mark Wallace | 6 May 2017

Exclusive. Full shortlist for the Isle of Wight. Bolton North East candidate replaced. Latest news.

Alicia Kearns joins Joe Robertson and Bob Seely in the island contest.

By Mark Wallace | 5 May 2017 | 3 comments

Election 2017: Karen Lumley and Andrew Turner stand down. Here’s the list of other MPs also doing so to date.

A running list of the current Members of Parliament, of all parties, who aren’t seeking to stand again.

By Henry Hill | 28 April 2017 | 222 comments

Daniel Hannan: Our electoral system is less secure than that of most banana republics

What possible reason could Labour have to vigorously oppose anti-fraud measures?

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 5 January 2017 | 152 comments

New funding to help combat election fraud in Tower Hamlets – and elsewhere

Sam Gyimah has been fighting the good fight.

By Paul Goodman | 9 January 2015 | 34 comments

Cllr Dexter Smith: Slough’s Children Services keep failing… and nobody ever apologises

Slough Children’s Services are being transferred to a not-for-profit Children’s Trust – and not a moment too soon.

By Dexter Smith | 6 August 2014 | 2 comments

The battle for Slough

The Liberal Democrats only have five candidates

By David Burbage | 13 May 2014 | 5 comments

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