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Nigel Huddleston says local elections ‘will be difficult’ for Conservatives after the ‘high-water mark’ of 2021Good morning. For Keir Starmer, it is a military day. This morning Downing Street has released video footage and pictures of Starmer meeting the crew of a nuclear-armed submarine as it returned to Faslane in Scotland. Later this morning he is in Barrow, where he is going to “lay the keel to the first boat of the next generation nuclear armed submarines, knowns as the Dreadnought class”, No 10 says. He is also announcing that “the king has agreed to confer the ‘Royal’ title to the Port of Barrow in recognition of the town’s unique and critical contribution to national security as home of nuclear submarine building in the UK”. And this afternoon, in the south of England, he is going to attend a meeting of military chiefs and planners from the 30-odd countries that are part of the “coalition of the willing” offering to help protect Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.I will cover some of that here, but Jakub Krupa will lead the Ukraine-focused coverage on his Europe live blog.The Conservatives are the only party that stands up for families, for rural communities, and for local businesses. Labour pander to the unions, the Lib Dems waste your taxes, and Reform have no experience running anything.The Conservatives will be your voice in your local community, delivering value for money, lower taxes and better services – so vote Conservative on 1 May.This is us having an election after losing the general election last year, [defending the] high-water mark of the 2021 local elections, where we got an incredible 65% of all seats. That’s about 30% higher than we normally get in local elections. This is following on from the vaccines roll-out. We won the Hartlepool byelection on the same day. So 2021 was a really high-water mark, and that’s what we’re facing against now.Now, we are fighting for every single vote in every single seat, but it will be difficult. Continue reading...
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Nigel Huddleston says local elections ‘will be difficult’ for Conservatives after the ‘high-water mark’ of 2021
Good morning. For Keir Starmer, it is a military day. This morning Downing Street has released video footage and pictures of Starmer meeting the crew of a nuclear-armed submarine as it returned to Faslane in Scotland. Later this morning he is in Barrow, where he is going to “lay the keel to the first boat of the next generation nuclear armed submarines, knowns as the Dreadnought class”, No 10 says. He is also announcing that “the king has agreed to confer the ‘Royal’ title to the Port of Barrow in recognition of the town’s unique and critical contribution to national security as home of nuclear submarine building in the UK”. And this afternoon, in the south of England, he is going to attend a meeting of military chiefs and planners from the 30-odd countries that are part of the “coalition of the willing” offering to help protect Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
I will cover some of that here, but Jakub Krupa will lead the Ukraine-focused coverage on his Europe live blog.
The Conservatives are the only party that stands up for families, for rural communities, and for local businesses. Labour pander to the unions, the Lib Dems waste your taxes, and Reform have no experience running anything.
The Conservatives will be your voice in your local community, delivering value for money, lower taxes and better services – so vote Conservative on 1 May.
This is us having an election after losing the general election last year, [defending the] high-water mark of the 2021 local elections, where we got an incredible 65% of all seats. That’s about 30% higher than we normally get in local elections. This is following on from the vaccines roll-out. We won the Hartlepool byelection on the same day. So 2021 was a really high-water mark, and that’s what we’re facing against now.
Now, we are fighting for every single vote in every single seat, but it will be difficult. Continue reading...
