DERBYSHIRE: Conservatives launch manifesto for May council elections
Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin joined Derbyshire County Council leader Andrew Lewer to unveil the Tory group’s manifesto in Matlock on Friday.
The 15-page document lists a number of pledges including:
• another freeze in council tax for 2014 to 2015
• no library closures
• £100m for school repairs and rebuilding
• a new training scheme for 500 adults
• £6m for road repairs
• funding to care for elderly and disabled people
Derbyshire Dales MP hailed the manifesto as “looking forward”.
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Hide AdCllr Lewer said: “As Conservatives we offer Derbyshire people a competent and capable team with moderate but progressive ideas - this manifesto highlights some of those ideas.
“This county cannot afford to go back to being run by hard-line left wingers harking back to the 1970s.”
Derbyshire County Council has been under Conservative control since since 2009.
Before then the authority had been Labour-led for 28 years.
The county council elections will take place on Thursday, May 2.
Visit www.derbyshireconservatives.co.uk to view the full manifesto.