The English Democrats is a right-wing to far-right,English nationalist political party active in England. A minor party,it currently has no elected representatives at any level of UK government.
Valerie Shawcross is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London for Transport from 2016 to 2018. A member of the Labour Co-operative parties,she was Member of the London Assembly for Lambeth and Southwark from 2000 to 2016.
Richard Michael Barnes is a British politician,who was the Deputy Mayor of London from 2008 to 2012. A former member of the Conservative Party,Barnes served as the Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly from 2007 to 2008,and was the Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Ealing and Hillingdon from 2000 to 2012,when he lost his seat to Labour. On 30 September 2014,Barnes defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Andrew John Pelling is a British politician. First elected as a Conservative he was an independent Member of Parliament for Croydon Central and on 30 March 2010 announced his intention to contest the seat as an Independent at the 2010 general election,but lost the seat to his former party. He was also a member of the London Assembly for Croydon and Sutton and a councillor in Croydon. Pelling later became a member of the Labour Party in February 2011;he was subsequently expelled from Labour in February 2022.
Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London,England. The city is divided into 20 wards,each electing three councillors. The council is currently composed of 31 Labour Party members and 23 Conservative Party members. The council was created by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced three local authorities:Paddington Metropolitan Borough Council,St Marylebone Metropolitan Borough Council and Westminster Borough Council.
Christopher Laurie "Kit" Malthouse is a British politician and businessman who served as Secretary of State for Education from 6 September to 25 October 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he previously served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from July to September 2022. He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Hampshire since 2015.
Elections to Croydon Council in London,England were held on 4 May 2006. The whole council was up for election for the first time since the 2002 election. The Labour Party lost control of the council to the Conservative Party for the first time since 1994.
Gareth Andrew Bacon is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orpington since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party,he was a member of the London Assembly from 2008 until he stood down in 2021 after his election as an MP.
Lambeth London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lambeth in Greater London,England. It is a London borough council,and one of the 32 in the United Kingdom capital of London. The council meets at Lambeth Town Hall in Brixton. Lambeth is divided into 25 wards:thirteen are represented by 3 councillors and twelve are represented by 2. The council was first elected in 1964.
Maria Gatland is a councillor in the London Borough of Croydon for the Conservative Party,who has represented the South Croydon ward since 2018. From 2002 to 2018 she was a Conservative councillor for the Croham ward. She is also a former Croydon Council cabinet member for education,a post she resigned after controversy due to being a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Steven Mark Ward Reed is a British politician who has been Shadow Secretary of State for Justice since November 2021. A member of the Labour and Co-operative party,he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Croydon North since a 2012 by-election.
Stephen John Greenhalgh,Baron Greenhalgh is a British businessman and politician,and was the second Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime in London. He is a member of the Conservative Party. In April 2020 he was created Baron Greenhalgh of Fulham in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.
The 2021 London Assembly election was held on 6 May 2021 to elect the members of the London Assembly,alongside the 2021 London mayoral election. The mayoral and Assembly elections were originally to be held on 7 May 2020,but on 13 March 2020 it was announced the election would be postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the sixth election since the assembly was established in 2000. Due to the previous term being extended to 5 years,those elected will serve only a three-year term until the next election in 2024. The election was held on the same day in 2021 as other elections in the UK;the UK local elections,Scottish Parliament election,and Welsh Senedd election.
Susan Mary Hall is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide since 2017. She has been the leader of the London Conservatives on the Assembly since December 2019.
Local elections in England and Wales were held on 6 May 2021 for more than 145 English local councils for around 5,000 seats,thirteen directly elected mayors in England,and 39 police and crime commissioners in England and Wales. There were also elections to the Scottish Parliament,Senedd and London Assembly,the last in conjunction with the London mayoral election. Also on the same day as these local elections,there was a UK Parliament by-election for the constituency of Hartlepool.
The Mayor of Croydon is a directly elected mayor responsible for the executive function of Croydon London Borough Council. The current mayor is Jason Perry of the Conservative Party,elected in May 2022,and the first holder of the post.
The 2021 Cambridgeshire County Council election took place on 6 May 2021 as part of the 2021 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 61 councillors were elected from 59 electoral divisions,which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The election was held alongside a full election for Cambridge City Council,the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner,Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and one-third of Peterborough City Council.
In the 2022 Croydon London Borough Council election,on 5 May 2022,all 70 members of Croydon London Borough Council,and the Mayor of Croydon,were up for election. The elections took place alongside the local elections in the other London boroughs and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom. Jason Perry of the Conservative Party narrowly won the mayoral election.
The 2022 Hackney London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 57 members of Hackney London Borough Council were up for election. The elections took place alongside the election for the mayor of Hackney,local elections in the other London boroughs,and elections to local authorities across the United Kingdom.
Jason Stephen Perry is a Conservative Party politician who has served as the directly elected Mayor of Croydon,a Borough within London,since 2022. He was previously the Leader of the Opposition of the Croydon London Borough Council and has been Leader of the Croydon Council Conservative Group since September 2020.
