The prime minister's backyard

North London Bubble #1: Camden's search for a new chief exec, a reshuffle in Islington and Sir Keir looks for a constituency office

NORTH LONDON BUBBLE

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Sir Keir Starmer’s team learned that Camden Disability Action didn’t want them in the Greenwood Centre

NOT HERE, SIR KEIR

THE Prime Minister had bigger things to worry about this week than a search for a new constituency base, but the reveal that Camden Disability Action had opposed a possible move into the Greenwood Centre in Kentish Town underlined the recipe for the electoral losses elsewhere in the country.

Sir Keir Starmer’s people insist that the word ‘blocked’ was unfair, but Pat Stack, the charity’s chair of trustees in the New Journal, and then Colin Brummage, its chief exec in Th…