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Majority of Hackney’s Conservative councillors back Kemi Badenoch’s leadership bid

‘I don’t trust Robert Jenrick,’ says local party’s deputy leader and chief whip

Author: Joe Steen, Local Democracy Reporter

Majority of Hackney’s Conservative councillors back Kemi Badenoch’s leadership bid

Cazenove by-election: Conservatives score upset to swipe seat from Labour

Ian Sharer, who previously represented the ward as a Liberal Democrat, wins with more than half of the vote

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cazenove by-election: Conservatives score upset to swipe seat from Labour

Conservative mayoral candidate will help ‘rip out’ his local LTN if elected – as he vows to scrap traffic scheme

Simche Steinberger, a Springfield ward councillor, also promises a new budget and planning reforms

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Conservative mayoral candidate will help ‘rip out’ his local LTN if elected – as he vows to scrap traffic scheme

‘Ultimately, fewer people will vote’: How the cyber attack on Hackney Council could damage local democracy

Tiya Thomas-Alexander examines the impact of last year’s criminal hack on postal voting ahead of May’s elections

Author: Tiya Thomas-Alexander

‘Ultimately, fewer people will vote’: How the cyber attack on Hackney Council could damage local democracy

‘Bin decorations for £17k?’: Brownlow Road residents demand answers on council service charges

One local says they are ‘worried about their credit file’ after needing to borrow money to pay off their arrears

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

‘Bin decorations for £17k?’: Brownlow Road residents demand answers on council service charges

Hackney councillors express discomfort at having to vote on their own pay

Mayor echoes view of Conservative Cllr Harvey Odze, who said allowances should be ‘agreed by an outside body’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Sunday's best: Licensing committee considers Hoppers' bid for longer opening hours

David Osland: ‘Diana Danescu should apologise personally to local voters’

The Hackney-based journalist on the case of the Tory election agent found guilty of a fake signature scam, and what it says about the state of local politics

Author: David Osland

David Osland: ‘Diana Danescu should apologise personally to local voters’

Rogue Tory election agent deliberately misled voters in fake signature scam

Diana Danescu, 28, given suspended prison sentence after being found guilty last week at Southwark Crown Court

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Letter: ‘We should be celebrating the private sector, not using it to score cheap political points’

Chair of Hackney Conservatives Jack Sutcliffe defends ‘dynamic private sector’ in response to our story about a delivery of the wrong coronavirus tests to a mobile centre in Dalston earlier this month

Author: Hackney Citizen