Yet Another Southwark Councillor Quits Labour for the Greens - Third in Just Two Months

Yet another Southwark councillor quits Labour for the Greens - third in just two months

Cllr Reginald Popoola has represented Queen's Head and Nunhead ward since 2022

Southwark gains another Green Party councillor from Labour

Socialist and community activist councillor Reginald Popoola has joined the Green Party. He becomes the Green Party’s third new Southwark Council councillor in three months. Councillors Kath Whittam and Sam Foster joined the party, also from Labour, in November and December 2025. Popoola will now serve as a Green Party councillor and will stand in May’s elections for the Rye Lane Ward. He promises to continue to work hard for the local community…

Green Party surge in South London with another Labour defection in Southwark

Councillor Reginald Popoola has become the third Southwark Labour councillor to defect to the Green Party in recent months, joining Kath Whittam and Sam Foster. The announcement marks another blow to Labour’s grip on the borough and continues a pattern of defections across south London. Popoola, who describes himself as a Black working-class Southwark resident, born and raised in the borough, attended St James the Great Primary and Sacred Heart …

Third Southwark Labour councillor in two months defects to Green Party

The third Southwark Labour councillor in the space of two months has defected to the Green Party – but the Labour Party have hit back furiously, accusing him of focusing on the ‘future of his own political career’ rather than residents. Reginald Popoola, the council’s Deputy Cabinet member for Landlord Services and councillor for Queen’s […]