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There has been no escape from the need to cut spending – but the cuts have been poorly managed.

Free schools and academies are concerned by the threat of creeping municipalisation.

Here is my blueprint for home ownership if I am elected Mayor of London next year.

Labour are looking to supplant the Liberal Democrats as our main opponents – but UKIP and a number of independents are also fighting hard.

The Government has eased parking restrictions – Labour threaten to put this into reverse.

The councillor had previously served as an independent.

Labour gain a seat from Plaid Cymru in Gwynedd

Spending on libraries has fallen by £2 million but the number of visits is up.

The Conservatives have lost a seat to the Lib Dems in Tandridge.

The planning process can be used to save lives.

Let’s turn council estates into “city villages” – with street patterns and traditional housing rather than tower blocks.

There is more to do – building more houses, giving more power to local communities and helping people onto the housing ladder.

Bureaucracy and political correctness have been cut back while taxes have been kept down.

The Conservatives gain a seat in the Vale of Glamorgan.

An extra band or two of Council Tax would be fairer than Labour’s “Mansion Tax”

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