John Bald: To identify coasting schools, better inspection is needed

We need to get rid of the idea that any inspector can inspect anything.

Let’s introduce a right to shared ownership

Even with the discounts many can not afford to exercise the right to buy.

Cllr Paul James: A positive campaign in Gloucester delivered Conservative victory

Our campaign slogan was “Let’s Keep Gloucester on the UP!”

Cllr Louise McKinlay: Restoring sound management to Brentwood

Conservatives gained control promising to cut councillor allowances and keep the weekly refuse collection.

Cllr Terri Reid: Our ambitions for Basingstoke and Deane

Every piece of paper we put out carried the message of “more jobs, lower taxes, better services”.

Adam Simmonds: Let’s make crime fighting central to the Queen’s Speech

Let’s have a Queens Speech that puts better public services, crime prevention and victims at its very heart

Cllr James Friend: Conservatives have retaken Mole Valley District Council

Six years of compromise decision making under no overall control have come to an end.

UKIP take charge in Thanet

But how will the Party of protest cope with power?

Cllr David Hodge: Power to the counties

Devolution should not only take place to the cities.

Judy Terry: Let’s boost Local Enterprise Partnerships

LEPs should be allowed to help improve the housing supply.

Cllr Peter Golds: The campaign to turn the East End blue

I will be fighting hard to bring a positive Conservative programme to Tower Hamlets on June 11th.

Cllr Susan Hall: Local issues matter in General Elections

In Harrow one of the biggest issues was the Labour council’s £75 “garden tax”.

UKIP councillor defects to the Conservatives

The decision follows the Government’s plans to proceed with an in/out referendum on EU membership.

A tribute to Pickles – the CLG Secretary who championed Council Taxpayers over vested interests

Now he has an important new role as the Anti-Corruption Tsar.

Are council elections a better guide than opinion polls to future General Elections?

Poor results in London for the Conservatives and good results elsewhere were foreshadowed.