The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election. The result, which was announced just after midnight, is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and a rare humiliation for Labour, whose candidate Jummy Dawodu boycotted local hustings, claiming they would not be impartial, and sent residents a now-notorious letter criticising local campaigns against council land sales in the ward. The election was called after the resignation of Labour's Ivis Williams after she was threatened with suspension for speaking out over those land sales. Rhymes took 869 votes (34.6 […]
