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LABOUR group members from Camden are in the thick of a determined bid to derail government policy on council housing at the party’s annual conference in Brighton.
Backbench councillor Pat Callaghan is due to take centre stage this morning (Thursday) when she moves a motion in the main conference hall which effectively calls on ministers to cough up millions of pounds in direct investment to improve Camden’s crumbling council homes.
The move comes after sev-eral flashpoints in a mixture of private and fringe meetings on the south coast.
Camden leader Dame Jane Roberts collared housing minister Yvette Cooper in a behind-closed-doors meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
She argued that bringing council homes up to scratch should be a chief priority.

EX-MAYOR: LEADER IS A 'FUHRER'

TOWN Hall leader Councillor Steve Hitchins was described as “the Fuhrer” this week by a former colleague who attacked his “extremely dictatorial” and “bullying” attitude.
Councillor Joan Coupland described an incident in April, when she was mayor, during which a furious Cllr Hitchins thumped his fist down on a desk in his office when she refused to go out and canvass for the Lib Dems.
The extraordinarily bitter in-fighting that went on behind the scenes at the Town Hall was revealed by Cllr Coupland when she gave evidence at the start of a misconduct hearing by the Standards Board of England, a government watchdog with powers to disqualify councillors from serving for up to five years.

‘THEY WERE PAYING ME A PITTANCE’

A PENSIONER employed to hand deliver voting forms for next year’s council elections pulled out half way through after finding she was being paid less than the minimum wage.
Now Ann Ashley, 73, of the Peabody Estate, Abbey Orchard Street, Victoria, is furious that Westminster Council has refused to pay her anything for delivering electoral registration forms to 585 addresses in Victoria.
The head of Unison in Westminster Rahul Patel attacked the council for failing to pay canvassers and is seeking legal advice to find out if their “ambiguous” pay structure stands up in law.

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