Sarah Teale's work email address is ***********@bbc.co.uk In fact the May 2019 Basetlaw elections were awful for the Conservatives, who went backwards on the council: Labour won 37 seats against 5 Conservatives, 5 independents and a Lib Dem. Conservative councillor Dan Schumann, who founded an arts centre in Soham, has resigned due to family and work commitments; he is also stepping down from East Cambridgeshire council where he represented Soham South ward. Teale earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $200,000 as a broadcast journalist. The current council composition is 12 independents, 10 Lib Dems, 10 Conservatives, 8 Oxted and Limpsfield residents and 2 vacant seats; the independents and residents are currently running the show. Expect a continued hung council here. The A1 corridor is a different matter, as we can see from looking at Welwyn Hatfield. Explore in 3D: The dazzling crown that makes a king. Karen Seymour, of the Trade Unionist and Socailist Coalition, completes the mayoral ballot. In 2019 Torbay council returned 15 Conservatives, 13 Lib Dems and 8 independents; the Lib Dems subsequently lost a by-election to the Conservatives in November 2019. This unexpectedly ended up hung at its first elections in 2019, largely thanks to a protest vote for independent candidates in Christchurch: the 2019 elections returned 36 Conservative councillors (mostly from Bournemouth), 15 Lib Dems (mostly from Poole), 11 independents (mostly from Christchurch), 7 Poole People, 3 Labour, 2 Greens, 1 UKIP and 1 Alliance for Local Living councillor. The 2019 elections to Rother council returned 14 Conservatives, 13 independents, 7 Lib Dems, 3 Labour and a Green councillor; the Conservatives did do a bit better here in the 2021 East Sussex county elections, but they have a long way to recover. If you enjoyed these previews, there are many more like them going back to 2016 in the Andrews Previews books, which are available to buy now (link). Stoke also now has a full slate of three Conservative MPs. He was knighted in 1999 for services to local government. Dont miss to subscribe to our new feeds, kindly fill the form below. New ward boundaries make comparisons difficult, but by-election results suggest that the Conservatives may be in some trouble here: they lost two seats to Labour last year, and Brighton and Hoves demographic makeup is really not a good fit for what the Conservative demographic has become. I'm not keen on motor racing. Home - Sarah Hawley Matt Teale was with ITV in the Midlands from 1997 until 2022 before becoming one of the two main presenters of ITV News Meridian in 2022. The design of the class introduces easy-to-follow Zumba choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination. The constituency of long-serving cabinet minister Grant Shapps currently has a Conservative-majority council, with 26 Conservative councillors against 12 Lib Dems and 10 Labour. Beyond that is what is likely to be a bright spot for the Essex Conservatives: the New Town of Basildon.