Greg Hands urges individuals to ‘shield ladies’s rights’ with their vote

Voters had been warned “don’t risk waking up” to a “lefty” city corridor that erodes ladies’s rights on this week’s council elections.

Conservative social gathering chairman Greg Hands mentioned failing to vote on Thursday might land residents with costly, however badly run Labour councils.

Backing the Daily Express campaign to guard ladies’s rights, he mentioned left-wing native authorities usually tend to put protections like single-sex areas in danger.

Mr Hands mentioned: “I commend the Express for its campaign. I think single-sex spaces are really, really important.”

He mentioned given what number of public areas are run by native authorities it is a matter for voters to think about.

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“A lefty council is more likely to erode that sort of safe single space culture that I think is so important for women across the country. So I think it is an issue,” he added.

“And I think you can rely on Conservative councils to listen to people better deliver on their local people’s priorities rather than actually say some kind of politically correct ideology.”

Mr Hands mentioned Conservative councils value residents a mean of £80 much less for a band D property, fill as many potholes and Labour and Lib Dem-run city halls put collectively and residents are much less more likely to be a sufferer of crime.

He identified voters even get higher Coronation bunting underneath the Tories than the “poundland” Labour efforts.

He urged individuals contemplating staying at dwelling on polling day to assume once more.

“I would say to anybody thinking of sitting it out, ‘don’t’ because you could wake up with a badly run labour authority,” he mentioned.

The Tory chairman represents a constituency that straddles a Conservative-run Kensington and Chelsea council and Labour-led Hammersmith and Fulham.

He mentioned the “contrast between those two councils is huge”.

“The Conservative Council is delivering better services and the best schools in the country,” he mentioned.

“The Labour Council has got the worst record in Britain for mould and damp in council flats.”

He added: “You can see it at the moment with the Coronation.

“Chelsea is always laid out really nicely for big events like this, the Jubilee, the Coronation.

“Fulham has got what looked like sort of 50p from Poundland flags sellotaped to lampposts. It’s just that attention to detail from a well-run council.

“So I would say it’s not just about Coronation bunting, it illustrates a wider point that Conservative councils are better run and cost you less than Labour and Lib Dem council.

“Don’t risk waking up to a Labour Council. “

Academics predict the Conservatives are on course to lose 1,000 seats and say a good night for the party would be to limit that to 300.

Mr Hands refused to be drawn on what figures he is hoping for but said that the Tory grassroots out knocking on doors are a “little bit more upbeat” than the pollsters.

“But I wouldn’t be being truthful if I weren’t to say it’s a challenging environment out there,” he mentioned.

“I don’t really I don’t have a target or an upside or what is a good night expectation.

He said: “Conservative councils deliver you more at less cost. And that is my key message ahead of these local elections.

“And anybody who is weighing up how to vote on Thursday … think really carefully about the delivery given to them by their Conservative Council or the poor delivery that’s given to them by the Labour or Lib Dem Council.”

Mr Hands says it has been placing whereas out campaigning how the primary response individuals need to Sir Keir Starmer is that he “flip flops and changes his mind on issues”.

“And that is not something that people want to see in a prime minister,” he added.

He pointed to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s observe report of supply, together with securing a brand new Brexit settlement for Northern Ireland, becoming a member of the trans-pacific commerce bloc and introducing powerful new laws to deal with the small boats disaster.

Mr Hands brandished a replica of the letter he “carries everywhere” written by Liam Byrne, who was chief secretary to the Treasury underneath Gordon Brown, that he left for his successor within the 2010 election saying “There’s no money left”.

He mentioned it reveals that Labour governments all the time depart the nation in a “financial mess”.

Sir Keir is “fundamentally somebody that people can’t rely on”,” Mr Hands added.

“He’s had multiple positions,” he mentioned. “And will say different things to different audiences to get him where he needs to be on that particular day. And that’s not a way to be Prime Minister.”

Mr Hands insisted there’s “no reason” to imagine an early normal election is “imminent”.

He mentioned: “It is my job to be ready whenever the Prime Minister decides to call that election.

“So there’s no reason in my view to have any speculation that the election is in any way imminent.

“But my job is to make sure that the party is ready for that day when it comes.”