It is ambition that is needed to keep our town centres alive and to give shops a chance to compete with online retailers.
On the doorstep, one lady recently proclaimed; ‘I won’t vote for anyone that sends people to Rwanda’. However, she was just as passionate about that broken pavement slab in front of her house, and that noisy pothole that keeps her husband up at night.
The whole strategy is to disguise these beliefs. It is undeniably a cowardly and cynical approach to local politics. But that does not mean it will not be effective.
As a director of an IT Infrastructure business, I see the massive opportunities. I plan to seize them.
The Conservatives gained a seat from an independent in Angus. Labour held a seat in Cardiff.
We have delivered on the 2019 election promise to recruit 20,000 additional police officers. Crime is going down. The police are being given the equipment and kit that they need to do their job properly.
We created Operation Viper to tackle County Lines, and this has made over 200 arrests and closed 45 per cent of the County Lines in Dorset.
As we are all living longer homeowners see the potential inheritance being wiped away by a looming care bill.
The number of rough sleepers in England as a whole has slightly decreased within the same period. So, it is difficult to pin the blame on the Tories – The Mayor of London has done exceptionally poorly.
The Conservatives gained a seat from an independent in Pembrokeshire.
Whilst we all put a great deal of time into our literature, the reality is that once it lands on someone’s doormat you have between 6-10 seconds to make an impression on those picking it up off the doormat and walking to the kitchen bin.
If councillors were to bend to pressure from campaigners on behalf of the casualties of all ongoing armed conflict on the planet, to debate what demands to make of the combatants, they would have insufficient time left at council meetings to conduct actual council business.
We must deliver on our pledge to ban peat in the retail horticulture sector.
Even though we have reduced ASB by 59 per cent across Gloucestershire, I want us to tackle the rest, plus all the ASB that doesn’t get reported. That is why I have made substantial investments to improve the performance of our 101 non-emergency service.
The Lib Dems lost a seat to an independent on Highland. But the Lib Dems held a seat in North Yorkshire.