A record number of 68,000 potholes were repaired in 2018. The new model will mean even better performance and efficiency in the future.
As a council by-election candidate, I had the backing of a campaign manager, an assistant campaign manager, the local MP, and the sitting councillors… I won.
We have a civic duty to uphold and defend our collective natural inheritance. The planning system is not flawless but it has an important role.
If everyone had the opportunity to attend a private school then, by definition, they couldn’t be elite.
It’s hopeless trying to avoid the ideological battle.
Maybe it was ever thus, at least in modern times, but Tory-held suburban seats outside the South-East are under-represented at the top table.
It is worth looking at where we were successful, and what went right, in the hope we can replicate that, and secure better success at the next general election.
They take place three months from tomorrow – as will Birmingham’s mayoral election and that Surrey council tax referendum.
Local Conservative candidates bear the brunt of the Prime Minister’s failure to fulfil her Brexit pledge. Her decision to work with Corbyn was the last straw.