While I support the principle of these zones, a poorly executed plan will bring up the cost of living.
I am very conscious that I am only one of 141 Conservative candidates campaigning in these elections.
This is an ambitious project designed to appeal to the 30 per cent of people here who don’t cycle but say they would like to give it a go.
Whitehall must understand that if an algorithm offers up cherished green spaces to hungry developers, there will be a local backlash.
This decision reiterates the political importance of the UK’s cities to our party – and we must aim for a blue-led council in 2022.
Nick Timothy is from this Birmingham seat, which could go blue if anyone can be bothered to vote.
After 40 years we in Royal Sutton Coldfield have got our town council back and with it our civic pride.
The re-warding debate is like the captain of the Titanic busily re-ordering the placement of the deckchairs while his ship is heads towards an iceberg.
Only nine communities in England have royal status as conferred by the monarch – and none are further north than Sutton Coldfield.