Aled Richards-Jones

No. The budget gap I describe in the article has arisen under the Labour administration.

Aled Richards-Jones: A financial asteroid is about to hit Wandsworth Council | Conservative Home The combination of a hostile Labour Government slashing our funding by nearly 40 per cent and an incompetent local Labour administration burning through our savings is catastrophic.

Wandsworth Council is heading towards a financial crisis, created both in Downing Street and the Town Hall - but its ruling councillors won’t talk about it.

I’ve written about it here 👇

conservativehome.com/2026/02/06/a...

This is the third 2% increase in a row.

It’s also financed from a panic raid of the financial reserves inherited from the previous Conservative council.

There’s an £11 million hole in Labour’s budget.

This is the third 2% increase in a row.

It’s also financed from a panic raid of the financial reserves inherited from the previous Conservative council.

There’s an £11 million hole in Labour’s budget.

It’s not a freeze - it’s the third 2% increase in a row.

It’s also financed from a panic raid of the financial reserves inherited from the previous Conservative council.

There’s an £11 million hole in Labour’s budget.

It’s not a freeze - it’s the third 2% increase in a row.

It’s also financed from a panic raid of the financial reserves inherited from the previous Conservative council.

There’s an £11 million hole in Labour’s budget.

Bradstow School Closure: Wandsworth Council’s Rush to Close a Special Needs School - ChamberUK The Labour-run council’s proposals to close Bradstow School resulted in a walk-out of Conservative councillors at a recent council meeting. The background to that walk out was a long run of rule chang...

I’ve written about Wandsworth Council’s rush to close a vital residential special needs school, and why anti-democratic moves at the town hall have stifled debate on this - and many other - important local issues

Please give it a read👇

chamberuk.com/bradstow-sch...

Too hard to implement? We introduced Mega Skip Days! So it’s great to see Labour continue yet another of our policies 🙂