Labour’s Jahdia Spencer won the West Thamesmead by-election – but little more than one in eight voters cast their ballots on the last Thursday before Christmas. Spencer won 464 votes – 45.1 per cent of the vote – while the housing campaigner Steve Day, standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate, took 336 votes (32.7 per […]
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Another by-election coming as Greenwich’s only Lib Dem councillor quits
Greenwich’s only Liberal Democrat councillor, Chris Lloyd, has announced his resignation – prompting the borough’s fourth by-election of the year in West Thamesmead. Lloyd had been a councillor for a decade after first being elected in the old Peninsula ward for Labour in 2014. He switched to West Thamesmead in 2022, but quit Labour last […]
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Greenwich Labour face tough by-election after Eltham councillor quits
Voters in Eltham will go to the polls for a council by-election next month after one of the area’s Labour councillors resigned. Sammy Backon quit his role as councillor for Eltham Town & Avery Hill on Thursday after accepting a job outside London. Labour wasted no time in calling the by-election for October 17, less […]
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Greenwich Labour ‘blocked’ call to help cladding row residents
Greenwich Labour has been accused of blocking a call for stronger fire safety protection at a riverside housing development after a councillor withdrew her support at the last minute. Chris Lloyd, the Liberal Democrat councillor for West Thamesmead, had hoped that the council would pass a motion criticising the developer that built Royal Artillery Quays. […]
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Chris Lloyd: Greenwich councillor who quit Labour joins Liberal Democrats
A Greenwich councillor who quit the Labour Party last year after accusing a colleague of homophobia has joined the Liberal Democrats. Chris Lloyd, who represents West Thamesmead, becomes the party’s first councillor at Woolwich Town Hall since 2010, the last time more than two parties were represented on Greenwich Council. Lloyd, who had sat as […]
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Greenwich councillor Chris Lloyd quits Labour after accusing colleague of homophobia
A Greenwich Labour councillor has quit the party after accusing one of his colleagues of making a homophobic remark to him. Chris Lloyd, who represents West Thamesmead, made a formal complaint against the councillor to senior figures in Greenwich Labour this summer, but became frustrated at the lack of action, The Greenwich Wire understands. “I […]
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West Thamesmead councillor Chris Lloyd quits race to be Swindon MP
West Thamesmead councillor Chris Lloyd has stepped down from his role as a Labour parliamentary candidate only three weeks after winning the selection. Lloyd had been picked by local party members to stand in Swindon North at the next general election. But this morning he said he was standing down because he would have trouble […]
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Greenwich councillor Chris Lloyd picked as election candidate in Swindon
Greenwich councillor Chris Lloyd has been selected as Labour’s general election candidate for North Swindon, four months after an unsuccessful attempt to be picked for a neighbouring seat. Lloyd, who represents West Thamesmead, won in a vote of local members this morning and will take on the sitting Conservative MP Justin Tomlinson when the next […]
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