Simon Minas-Bound: Reform is winning attention. Conservatives must win trust.

Simon Minas-Bound: Reform is winning attention. Conservatives must win trust.

Cllr Simon Minas-Bound is the Leader of the Conservative Group on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. Local elections are not won on ideology alone. They are won on trust. Over recent years, alongside leading the opposition on a large district council in the South East, I have trained councillors from across the political spectrum – Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens, Independents and Reform – in leadership, governance and decis…