The Conservative group leader conceded that this term will be tough for his group at Cardiff Council. The newly re-appointed leader at the authority will be overseeing a much-diminished band of councillors - an opposition made up of 11 members in the face of an administration made up of 55 Labour councillors.
In the 2017 local elections, the Conservatives had one of their best ever hauls of seats at Cardiff Council, winning 20. The loss of their seats during the elections on May 5 was largely put down to Prime Minister Boris Johnson breaking lockdown rules and the subsequent lack of trust in the Conservatives as a whole.
"I think that we do have work there to do and we have work to show that what we offer locally is [good]", said Cllr Robson when asked how his group can rebuild trust among voters in Cardiff. "We put it out there in the manifesto during the election campaign, but it was swamped by what was going on nationally. We couldn't get our message through.
