Labour loses control of Lambeth for first time in 20 years

Made in Lambeth, Failed in Lambeth: The catastrophic Starmer project was born in the borough – and is now crashing down in humiliating fashion, thanks to Claire Holland’s latest bout of petty Labour factionalism

For twenty years, Lambeth Labour behaved as though the borough belonged to them. Not represented. Not governed. Owned. The Town Hall machine became so dominant, so tribal and so ruthlessly factional that opposition parties often looked less like political rivals and more like tolerated background noise. Internal dissent was stamped on. Critics were frozen out. Residents raising concerns were frequently treated as irritants to be managed rather t…

Labour loses control of Lambeth for first time in 20 years

Labour has lost control of Lambeth Borough Council for the first time since 2006.