Residents’ right to know if their councillor is in Council Tax arrears
If a councillor can’t afford to pay the Council Tax, why to their expect their residents to be able to?
Tim Yeo has been deselected
Conservative Party members are becoming less deferential
Gove – on the strange death of the sink school
Instead of reinforcing the Berlin Wall between state and private, we should break it down.
Abolish the Environment Agency
The principle of localism should be extended to water management
Council by-election results from yesterday
Conservatives lose a seat in Lichfield – falling to fourth place
Government ditches Labour’s plan to let councillors vote from the pub
Only in Wales is the policy of “coach potato councillors” being pursued.
Pickles slaps down the Lib Dems over garden cities
Are the Lib Dems so keen on new garden cities they are willing to ignore local democracy?
Cutting the numbers stuck on disability benefit is an important achievement
Providing the most effective help and opportunities for the disabled can be achieved at the same time as reducing the cost to the taxpayer.
Dominic Raab is right to push for foreign criminals to be deported more easily
If the amendment doesn’t get through it may be that Labour or the Lib Dems are to blame. But it might be the pride of Sir Humphrey.
Labour would reinstate the 50p income tax rate – how would they fund the tax rise?
Since the 50p tax rate was abolished the share of income tax paid by the rich has increased.
Council byelection results from Thursday
Conservatives hold seat in Southend
UKIP Week: What makes councillors defect to it?
Usually the defection of councillors to UKIP has nothing much to do with policy
UKIP Week: In Kent the purple peril could be strong if UKIP had a coherent message
The Council Tax rise in Kent gives UKIP an important opportunity – yet they seem much too inept to seize it.
UKIP Week: Bitter divisions in Lincolnshire
UKIP councillors in Lincolnshire don’t seem interested in policy but personal recriminations
How will UKIP perform in the Council Elections?
It seems quite likely that UKIP will win the Euro Elections yet not take control of a single one of the councils holding elections the same day.