| KNOWN FOR HIS INDEPENDENCE OF MIND: NOW APPEALING AGAINST VERDICT. Cllr Richard Eason is facing deselection by the Labour Party. It means he is unlikely to be a Labour candidate for Osterley & Spring Grove ward at the Council elections in May, a seat he has held since 2018. His case has been considered by London Labour's Interview Assessment Panel which concluded he was not "a good Labour Party representative who would continue to contribute as an effective member of the team". Central to this is his call in November 2020 for the resignation of Labour colleagues Cllrs Hanif Khan and Katherine Dunne over the implementation of the cycleway through Chiswick. |