Tony Devenish | Conservative Home

Local issues matter. We are delivering good schools, housing and local services while achieving value for money.

Talk of being “cut to the bone” is nonsense. Here are some challenges councillors should be making about unnecessary spending.

Demands for billions of pounds for extra adult social care spending lack credibility given the continued profligate spending in our town halls.

My polling shows how a Tory candidate for Mayor of London could use a consumer-led approach to politics – as Margaret Thatcher did.

Let’s have someone with a Dick Whittington “upwardly mobile” life story to inspire Londoners with a message of sunlit uplands positivity.

We need a Council Tax cut for the young, financed by forced sales of municipal land to boost the number of new homes.

Too many Conservative councils are being passive on this key challenge – while sitting on vast supplies of surplus land.

Here are the five key messages each Conservative borough needs to get across.

Has the Council really done all it can in ‘sweating’ its large property assets ?

But Stamp Duty continues to constrain the supply of housing in the capital.

You are only likely to be a household name in your own household.

Newly-hired public servants earning more than £60,000 per annum should be on fixed term three year contracts.

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