From bin collections, to planning, to traffic schemes, residents felt their views had been ignored by an arrogant Council administration.
The Government should apply the same energy it has towards achieving Net Zero on Getting Housing Done.
A powerful coalition of the comfortably-off want to freeze this country in aspic. Ministers must resist them.
Its benefits would also extend to our own health and wellbeing.
Sooner or later this problem is going to hit the Tories – hard – due to the demographics the party needs to attract at the next election.
I am very conscious that I am only one of 141 Conservative candidates campaigning in these elections.
MPs seem to think ‘it doesn’t affect me, so I’ll think about it later’ when they hear complaints from Generation Rent.
The choice facing voters on May 6 is simple: do we accelerate the progress of the last four years, or do we go back to the old failing approach?
It’s not surprising that I do things differently, since I came to the role from a business background, rather than via the world of politics.
These figures will change substantially in the final version of the algorithm, especially because it will take into account green belt restrictions.
When Crisis is saying the same thing as the Centre for Social Justice and ourselves at the Adam Smith Institute, politicians should listen.
Labour has increased the Council Tax, doubled the number of senior officials, and seen Children’s Services go from “outstanding“ to being placed in special measures.
Our pledge has been to look first to these former industrial sites, to reclaim them and clean them up, when developers come knocking on the door.
The rest of our economy is shifting to greater sustainability. The system to provide places to live should do the same.
Far from protecting our most beautiful landscapes, it lays a noose of industrial farmland around our most productive cities.