We wish both the best in what look set to be uphill battles.
Croydon has a “Cultural Transformation Engagement Programme” – and there’s more elsewhere.
Unless there is a dramatic change to the UK’s Covid situation, restrictions must end, as planned, on June 21.
Listening to conversations in Westminster in recent days, I fear a number of misconceptions will drive bad decision-making.
Treat claims of a communalist election with suspicion. The evidence suggests that ethnic minority voters prioritise domestic issues over foreign policy ones.
Onwards to Anglia, where the Liberal Democrats and Tories will be fighting hard over a small clutch of possible gains.
Updated, plus: the results of four recent contests in target seats – Bishop Auckland, Bristol North West, Crewe and Nantwich, and Ipswich.
There are early signs of a common profile of the seats chosen as targets.
If the Conservatives had won 42 per cent from them too, our research projects that she would have won with a comfortable 42-seat majority.
Free schools are changing lives for the better, and have proved popular despite the early naysaying. Greening must shut down talk of scrapping the policy.
Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.
More spending for the EU has meant sharper austerity for local government.
A handful of gains from the Liberal Democrats do little to disguise a total stalemate between Labour and the Tories in this region.
Annual net migration currently suggests 55,000 more homes a year since the 2014 projections – more than the entire rise planned after the housing row.