Tony Devenish: We need to crack on with campaigning now for next year's local elections

Tony Devenish: We need to crack on with campaigning now for next year's local elections

Cllr Tony Devenish represents Knightsbridge and Belgravia Ward on Westminster City Council. He is a former member of the London Assembly. In my 20th year as a local councillor it is time we addressed head on, why local elections have become little more than referendums on the standing of the national parties (a real life opinion poll every May of circa one third of voters, in contrast to the circa two thirds who may vote at a General Election, i…