Tories: Our Wandsworth win ‘a thoroughly local verdict’published at 07:31 BST
Sarah Morris
Reporting from Wandsworth
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The Tory wins mean Wandsworth is now in no overall control
Aled Richards-Jones, leader of the Conservatives on Wandsworth council, tells me they will form the administration to run the council.
The party won 29 seats to Labour’s 28, meaning the council is now in no overall control.
“This was a thoroughly local verdict on four years of a failing Labour council,” he says.
“One that said it would freeze council tax but actually increased it, one that said it would cut crime but actually increased it, one that promised to build more houses and built fewer houses, and one that was actually called out by the UK Statistics Authority for misleading residents and its corporate communications.”
Richard-Jones says the big issues in the campaign were the council’s finances, public safety and housing.
