There has been no escape from the need to cut spending – but the cuts have been poorly managed.
Free schools and academies are concerned by the threat of creeping municipalisation.
The Government has eased parking restrictions – Labour threaten to put this into reverse.
The councillor had previously served as an independent.
Labour claim their policy would mean an extra 125,000 homes – the correct figure is nil.
What counts is that SNP MPs in a hung parliament would seek to put Miliband into Downing Street.
Labour gain a seat from Plaid Cymru in Gwynedd
The Conservatives have lost a seat to the Lib Dems in Tandridge.
Let’s turn council estates into “city villages” – with street patterns and traditional housing rather than tower blocks.
There is more to do – building more houses, giving more power to local communities and helping people onto the housing ladder.
Bureaucracy and political correctness have been cut back while taxes have been kept down.
An arbitrary limit on profits dismays both supporters and opponents of private sector involvement in the NHS .
The speech set out the relevance of Conservative policies and achievements for pensioners, families and the young.
The Conservatives gain a seat in the Vale of Glamorgan.
But why do other Government Departments apply a closed shop?