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Councillor Jason Zadrozny of Ashfield District Council

Ashfield County Council members charged with multiple offences

Tom Batten / News / 1 July 2023 / East Midlands, PoliticoWatch

The leader of Ashfield District Council, Councillor Jason Zadrozny, will appear in court next month, charged with offences including drug possession, money laundering and fraudulent income tax evasion. Fellow councillor Tom Hollis will also appear in court to face two charges under the Localism Act. Of Councillor Zadrozny’s charges, the 12 counts of fraud by […]

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Partygate footage “completely out of order”

Simon Crane / News / 21 June 2023 / PoliticoWatch

A video showing Conservative Party workers at a Christmas party during lockdown in 2020 is “terrible” and “completely out of order”, Michael Gove has said. The Levelling Up Secretary was reacting to a video which showed people dancing and drinking at a gathering – ignoring strict social distancing rules imposed by the government at the height

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16-pint-a-night Labour MP has whip restored

Simon Crane / News / 25 May 2023 / PoliticoWatch

MP Neil Coyle has been reinstated to the Parliamentary Labour Party following his suspension for racially abusing a journalist and harassing an assistant. The MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark has been sitting in the Commons as an independent MP since his suspension from Labour last year. Mr Coyle had admitted to a drink problem

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Police launch investigation into ex-SNP council leader

William Gibson / News / 23 May 2023 / PoliticoWatch, Scotland

Police Scotland are launching an investigation into Jordan Linden, the ex-SNP leader of North Lanarkshire Council, after five men, two of whom have given statements to detectives, made claims against him of sex attacks, child grooming and sexual harassment, some recent and others that date back eight years. Mr Linden told the media that he did not accept

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Starmer to give voting rights to millions of migrant

Ethan Claiborne / News / 19 May 2023 / Migration, PoliticoWatch

The Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer is being accused of trying to ‘rig’ future general elections and trying to reverse Brexit, by changing the electoral law in order to give millions of migrants the right to vote in our general and local elections. It began when his party, including his shadow frontbenchers, tabled amendments

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Major Conservative Party donor linked to money laundering scheme

Tom Batten / News / 16 May 2023 / Crime, PoliticoWatch

Javad Marandi, a top businessman with ties to the Conservative Party, has been implicated in an elaborate money laundering scheme. A National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation found some of Mr Marandi’s overseas interests had played a key role in the illicit scheme involving one of Azerbaijan’s richest oligarchs, Javanshir Feyziyev, who is also a member

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Disgraced SNP MP to stand at general election

Tom Batten / News / 10 May 2023 / PoliticoWatch, Scotland

Patrick Grady, the MP for Glasgow since 2015, was suspended from the Commons for two days in 2022 after inappropriately touching a party worker on a night out. Commons watchdogs described the incident as “unwelcome physical touching” with “sexual intent” and concluded that it was a breach of the parliament’s sexual misconduct policy. Despite the

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Suspended councillor reinstated

Ethan Claiborne / News / 4 May 2023 / London, PoliticoWatch

A South London councillor who had been suspended from the Conservative group in relation to a tweet he made on 8th October 2022 has recently been reinstated. Councillor John Bexley, who represents the West Heath ward for Bexley Council, made a tweet referencing Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was released from prison by the Iranian Government earlier

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The collapse of the SNP

Dave Gardner / News / 27 April 2023 / Opinion, PoliticoWatch, Scotland

The SNP under the stewardship of Humza Yousaf has continued its downward trend with yet another damaging revelation for supporters. Just when you thought this party was going to be running a more open and righteous campaign, they’ve now come out and said that all donations to support the push for ‘IndyRef 2’ are not

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