There are many seats in London that are also C1/C2 heavy: it is just that they are outer London seats.
London gets over half the spending – but has less than five per cent of England’s roads.
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.
Khan should stop playing politics over the tragedy in West London.
To save this country from the dangers of Corbynism requires us to keep our heads, hold our nerve, and be disciplined.
It is unlikely that the mass of such voters in those crucial northern and midlands marginals would welcome a permissive approach.
The lack of a stake in the system is pushing the political profile of the youngest tranche of workers towards that of students.
Every Tory I know is in politics to help the less fortunate, but we must get better at telling voters that.
The general election was a perfect storm for our Party in this part of the world, but looking ahead I think there are grounds for optimism.
May won five per cent more of the vote than Cameron did two years ago. The margin between having a majority and not having one was performance in marginal seats.
“This government will act to stamp out extremist and hateful ideology – both across society and on the internet, so it is denied a safe space to grow.”
It has to be said that the visit of many politicians to the site with no tangible results in terms of assistance did not help.
Our challenger can then have a three year long conversation with London.
No more foreign funding of extremism. No more self-appointed “community” intermediaries. No more pretence that it’s all about cyberspace.