More than £800 million in council tax and business rates was uncollected last year
Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles commented: "Incompetence has become a byword for New Labour. It is a sign of… Read more »
Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles commented: "Incompetence has become a byword for New Labour. It is a sign of… Read more »
We recently noted Philip Dunne MP’s findings that rural councils – largely Tory – were losing out to urban councils… Read more »
Later this morning Eric Pickles MP will be addressing the Conservative Councillors Association’s Leadership Conference in Nottingham. He intends to… Read more »
Questions tabled by the Conservatives have forced the Government to reveal the findings of a £27,000 study that warned of… Read more »
Yesterday Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh called for a blueprint for a Conservative approach to local government – high quality services, low… Read more »
Stephen Greenhalgh is Conservative leader of Hammersmith and Fulham and a key member of the team that Boris Johnson has… Read more »
Reports in The Daily Mail and Times target Tory-controlled Plymouth council this morning for an "intrusive" questionnaire that it is… Read more »
Slough was one of the very few good stories for Labour on the night of 1st May. Labour councillors were… Read more »
Yesterday we published some excellent advice from Wakefield’s Cllr Mike Walker. He offered great advice on how you can keep… Read more »
This is the text of the talk that Cllr Mike Walker of Wakefield West ward gave at the 2008 Spring… Read more »
The Daily Mail reports documents uncovered by the Conservatives that show that ministers HAVE NOT shelved plans to introduce taxes… Read more »
Last year’s ConservativeHome elections coverage won lots of acclaim. This is what The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson wrote at the time:… Read more »
Tory students, campaigning for local elections in Swansea, outdo a Labour student in the placard stakes. Click on the graphic… Read more »
The (first gay) Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, LibDem Cllr Marc Cranfield Adams, announced to the full Council last night… Read more »
Danny Titcombe, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Sedgemoor District Council has joind the Conservative Party. Cllr Titcombe has… Read more »