The opportunities to kickstart progress and prosperity in our region that devolution should bring just haven’t happened under the current Mayor.
Other Conservative seats that have been lost in recent by-elections may have had bigger majorities, but they will have been on the receiving end of much less Whitehall benefaction.
In the Cathedral Quarter, a wealth of medieval architecture has been uncovered. Some great work has seen many properties, previously empty, now converted into residential accommodation above retail.
The essence of a new strategy is to remove cars from the town centre, inevitably impacting existing and potential economic growth.
Services are not as good as they should be, particularly in call centre response times and housing repairs, including damp and mould. Residents are entitled to expect better.
The Government should empower local community organisations to take ownership of vacant and derelict high street property, so that they can bring them back into whatever use their economies need.
Gove is right to look to the 1980s for lessons. But the danger is that he is learning the wrong ones.
The regeneration will create 25,000 permanent jobs and homes for 20,000 people, all in less than a square mile. Astonishingly, Wandsworth’s new Labour-run Council boycotted last week’s opening.
We have seen genuine levelling up being delivered in our constituencies thanks to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT).
Securing Freeport status has meant thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of pounds of inward investment.
The Hammersmith Bridge omnishambles is the culmination of eight years of failure in my borough. It’s time for a change.
There are plenty of interesting ideas in here, but they add up merely to trying to do established policy a little better.
We intend to freeze those costs under our control – council heating and hot water charges – for the coming year.
Relaxing planning policy in designated development areas could overcome problems caused by low land values and thus kick-start private investment.
A remarkable amount has been achieved. Often against the odds and in the face of adversity. And certainly in circumstances far less benign than those faced by New Labour.