Enhancement of our grammar schools, switching street lighting to LED, and maintaining weekly bin collections, rely on rigorous financial management.
We are preparing a Conservative Manifesto offering a chance for positive change and proper financial stewardship at the elections next year.
Restricting access to the city centre through reinforced barriers is strongly opposed – especially by people with disabilities.
We need a strong team and a clear manifesto that is united by a commonality of purpose, with a drive to deliver for the residents.
It means a shift from a position where we think we know best, to supporting what is actually proven to work – and owned by the communities we support.
As believers in low tax, we think that now, more than ever, the council should be doing all it can to reduce the ask on hard-pressed Council Tax payers.
The temptation to respond to dirty tactics can be overwhelming. But those who believe them would often never vote Conservative anyway.
There are far too many town hall officials earning over £90,000 a year. A recruitment freeze would help allow a Council Tax freeze.
Labour’s failures in our borough have been monumental. But our campaign was a positive and optimistic one.
Support from the British Indian community has been growing considerably for the Conservatives in recent years.
Labour spent all their time telling people what they disliked about our borough. One of their candidates claimed the ward they were hoping to represent was “a dive”.
We delivered the largest Council Tax cut of any authority in the UK and we explained to people how we did it.
New high rises have wrecked the look and feel of our borough. People also see their hard-earned money wasted. They understand that things must change.
Inertia and vested interests mean councils are ignoring technological solutions. The result is a terrible physical and financial cost.