Peckham MP's first full interview since being elected. 

Miatta Fahnbulleh spoke about the bizarre rites and rituals of parliament, the rising pressure of constituency work, plus energy and housing policy. 

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Southwark Council Leader Kieron Williams saw off an internal Labour challenge within his group – winning 28 votes to 23.

The challenge came from the Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency, Streets and Clean Air, McAsh. 

Sources told me that failed housing initiatives, including the major works scandal I exclusively revealed, motivated the challenge.

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A row over Harriet Harman MP’s succession led to the dismissal of an entire selection panel following internal rows over preferred candidates, I exclusively revealed.

The new list included Johnson Situ, an alleged Keir Starmer favourite.

The story, picked up by the Guardian, was yet another sign that senior party officers were deliberately running processes that installed favourable candidates - against the votes of their selection committee members.

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A ‘bungled’ email proved a Labour Councillor tried to suppress a TfL report that criticised the Dulwich Village Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN), claim local residents. 

Cllr Richard Leeming hit send on an email urging a council officer not to send the ‘Herne Hill Signal Report’ to local people.

Croxted Road residents, many of whom have protested the Dulwich Village LTN, believe Cllr Leeming hadn’t realised his email would be sent to their association. 

This article was picked up by the 'Rotten Boroughs' section of the Private Eye. 

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The assisted dying bill left MPs with a landmark decision to make.

My reporting told our readers about their MPs' voting intention, giving them time to contact their representative ahead of the vote.

I also shared the heart-rending story of a woman whose mother starved to death rather than endure the suffering of her slow death.

MPs reveal vote intention
Monica's story

Kemi Badenoch became Tory leader with a reputation as a strident Brexiteer, firm right-winger and hard-nosed, no-frills debater.

But locals who worked with her on an early election campaign in Dulwich remember her as a "lovely" and "polite" woman. 

“There was never any of this rudeness you see now on TV which is exaggerated, I think,” one 2010 campaigner remembers.

Is Badenoch the brash bulldozer that members voted for, or is she soft in the middle?

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MP Neil Coyle revealed the struggle of losing his two “longest relationships” – the Labour Party and alcohol – fresh from his recommended suspension from the Commons.

In an interview, an apologetic yet defiant Mr Coyle said “the swearing won’t stop” even if the twelve-pint-a-day boozing has.

He spoke candidly about his drinking since childhood and deliberately avoiding Keir Starmer.

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Neil Coyle is reinstated

Political leaders are usually defined by what happens to them, rather than what they do. 

Southwark Council Leader Kieron Williams guided the borough through a four-year period of pandemic, national political turmoil, and war returning to Europe. 

The consequence of those events – the cost of living crisis – was the decisive challenge, he said in his first full interview. 

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Candidates looking to become the next MP for Camberwell and Peckham were pledging to set up a constituency office if selected. So why didn't Harriet Harman already have one?

The Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament says that MPs have a “special duty” to their constituents and constituency offices offer physical spaces where elected representatives perform that duty. 

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