Patrick Spencer: Some advice for the new Conservative leader. Stick to these three ideas to boost productivity.

The new Chancellor should stick to the basics of cutting taxes, spending more on education and rebalancing growth outside of London.

Wigan Council is seeking to be the servant and not the master of its residents

Spending cuts have caused a spirit of innovaton and cultural change in our town halls.

The local elections revisited: an analysis of results in the North West

This region shows that Liberal Democrat progress, at the expense of Labour, remains modest.

Connor Short: How we have taken on Labour in Wigan

Instinctively, voters in Leigh will not vote for a candidate that is either from out of town or has a lack of working class attitudes. Sitting in an office does not win any votes here.

Brandon Lewis: Thank you, Conservative members. Because of you, we did well in these elections. But this is just the start.

I want to commend every single one of you that stood for council or campaigned in any way in this poll.

Jarrow goes blue! But May loses her seat! Yet it’s a Tory landslide! The amazing 2020 General Election.

We present dismissible projections drawn from last June’s results…and some electoral trends that are not so dismissible.