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Alex Seabrook

‘This is not a national election’: Vale of Glamorgan’s Tory leader on why voters should elect the Conservatives to run the council

Council tax increases would be kept lower and fly-tipping would be stamped down on if Conservatives take back control of Vale of Glamorgan council. Local communities and businesses would have a larger say in council decisions and public consultations would hold more sway than currently.

The Conservatives currently have 14 councillors in the Vale of Glamorgan—one more than Labour who run the council with Independent councillors—and ran the council from 2017 until 2019 when a split in the local Tory group ended up with power switching hands.

In a recent radio interview, group leader George Carroll put forward his case for why voters should hand back power to the Tories in the upcoming local elections on Thursday, May 5.

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