I would like to welcome Nadhim Zahawi to the Stratford on Avon parliamentary contest, selected tonight by the Conservative Association as their candidate.

Conservative education spokesman Michael Gove has promised that he will not sell our schools to those with a ‘dark agenda’, but otherwise is looking to groups in Sweden, France and the USA to take on ‘failing schools’. Never has he seemed so out of touch…

Wrong answer too late.

The government has won its vote to have a referendum on a fairer voting system. But the system they have chosen is poor, and delaying so late means that the proposals will probably never become law.

Planning law must change

A hard materials company which has failed to reinstate an existing quarry site at Marsh Farm, Broom, now wants to dig at Berry Coppice Dunnington. But planning law is so weak that they are likely to get their way. Locally, they must be opposed. Nationally, the law must change.