Ravi Govindia: In Wandsworth, aspiration is at the heart of our mission

From schools, to helping the youngest get the best start in life, through to leading regeneration – we always strive to ensure that nobody is left behind.

Ferris Cowper: Our ambition is to abolish Council Tax in East Hampshire within four years

Our experience is that voters admire our radical approach and respect our resolve to find a new way of financing the public sector.

Kevin Davis: We are freezing the Council Tax in Kingston because it is the right thing to do

Other public services could learn that less money to spend means rethinking what you do.

Charlie Elphicke: Momentum threatens to take London back to the past

Red Ted Knight and the then Militant Tendency were a disaster for Lambeth. The hard left has returned – new bottles, yet very much the nastiest of old wine.

Roger Ramsey: London Conservatives struggling? Not in Havering

We are embarking upon major housing regeneration and are showing that ours is the Party truly focussed on improving residents’ quality of life.

“Ideological dogma will do nothing to improve the lives of residents”: Full text of Kober’s statement

The Leader of Haringey Council explains why she has decided to stand down at the local elections in May.

Labour council leaders warn their Party’s Corbynite NEC is a “dangerous and alarming” threat to local democracy

Scores of senior councillors argue that the central party’s attempts to dictate council policies are “an affront to the basic principles of democracy”.

Paul Bristow: The Momentum threat in Peterborough

Labour councillors are led by a Corbynista who backs a 15 per cent increase in Council Tax. Our challenge is to make residents aware of the danger.

Ben Rochelle: Why May will still be Prime Minister in a year’s time

The Brexit negotiations and the lack of an obvious successor are likely to keep her in place at least until we leave the EU in March 2019.

Meghan Gallacher: How the Conservatives changed the political landscape in North Lanarkshire

We also back demolishing our 48 high rise towers and replacing them with the houses we need. But we also need the correct infrastructure to support them.

David Meikle: In Glasgow, it is the Conservatives who offer the real opposition to the SNP

We are fighting against centralising power in Edinburgh. Glaswegians want more jobs and growth – and a cleaner, greener City.

Peter Golds: More bad news for Rahman as he is struck off as a solicitor

Will it be bad news for democracy in Tower Hamlets in 2018? The old tactics of toxic allegations in anonymous leaflets are being seen again.

Tony Devenish: What sort of candidate does the Conservative Party need for Mayor of London?

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

Oliver Freeston: My reasons for standing to be a councillor in North East Lincolnshire

Cleethorpes was always a bustling seaside town – but continuous mismanagement means it is in real danger of losing its great reputation.

Julie Bird: Why I have joined the Conservatives

I was elected as a UKIP councillor in Portsmouth but as a small business owner the Conservatives are my natural home.