I’m delighted to have been re-elected to represent Lavender ward, serving alongside my great friend and colleague, @danielrhamilton. Our majority increased from 93 to 583 on a swing to the Conservatives of 6%. I feel very lucky to represent such a great part of our great city.

I don't think attending an elite 586-year-old institution is any more of an obstacle to modernisation than attending the 471-year-old St John's, Oxford, which has clearly not been a brake on Lewis's excellent work in the 21st century.

Hugely positive move - the return of the pavement pizza, pint and pot of tea! Flexibility for business creates places people want to shop, socialise and creates a sense of community

Northcote Road pedestrianisation is coming back this Summer. See you on 11th July!

This implies that the main difference between Burnham and Starmer will simply be quicker U-turns.

I'm delighted to be taking on the role of Cabinet Member for Opportunity in Wandsworth, working to strengthen our economy and drive growth across the Borough.

Will HMT give her a work phone?

It’s not just him, Kelvin. Reform’s Head of Policy, @jtworr, described Russia’s invasion as a “regional Slavic conflict” that “he doesn’t much care about”. Dangerous to our national security.

Congratulations to Cllr Aled Richards-Jones on becoming the new Leader of the Council. The Conservative Group have tonight taken control of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

The @Conservatives have tonight formed an administration on @Wandsworth Council. We look forward to getting to work for residents and delivering real results. 🌳

Starmer, Burnham, Farage, Polanski…These men have one thing in common. They all want nationalisation. That will mean companies run by politicians but paid for with YOUR money. There’s only one party that stands against their failed ideas and that’s the Conservatives.

I've just read an extraordinary piece by Lee Cain, former Director of Communications to Boris Johnson, in Conservative Home today. Unfortunately, thinking in politics these days is based on the opinion polls of the day. We often forget that the only poll that matters is the one three years from now. When Boris left office, he left a Conservative Party that nearly 70 per cent of the public thought was untrustworthy and a similar proportion felt was incompetent. This is the mindset that Kemi now has to change. Condemning and attacking her strategy halfway through does nothing to help that.

This is classic Whitehall. ‘Delivery’ - or as taxpayers would call it, ‘do your (expletive!) job’ - should be the focus of everyone in government. But no. Designate a new, additional sub-team who can be the fall guys for failure. Those lanyards aren’t gonna wear themselves!

More process!

I am also astonished to see @nadhimzahawi retweeting what Mr Orr posted. He, like me, served in the Cabinet of @BorisJohnson. He, like me, knows how critical Britain’s military and moral support has been to preventing a Russian conquest. He used to believe in these things.

The Treasury in which we both served flew the flag of Ukraine alongside the Union flag. We didn’t see fit to describe that as “meaningless virtue signalling” then. Nor did it mean we were any less focused on serving the British national interest.

*Now* I understand why he took so long - it must have taken ages to write such a lengthy resignation letter.

I thought we all answered this question 11 years ago.

We go live to Downing Street!

Labour: losses everywhere. Reform: good gains made by burning thru ~£8mn (10x what you usually spend on locals) yet did worse than last year. Conservatives: progress on last year, losses in counties set to be abolished but best London results since 2006. Read more below👇 in my Telegraph article where I explain why, despite the setbacks, I'm encouraged with our results this week. The Conservative Party is rebuilding steadily, seriously and with purpose. We are not asking people to forget the past but to judge us by what we do next.

We got our Council back 💙