Welcome to this edition of 'Rickmansworth This Week e-news'. Ann Shaw writes and Les Mead writes, edits and circulates this newsletter. Feed back on this newsletter is welcome.
Although it was expected that the Conservatives would hold this seat for Haldens Ward on Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council the Liberal Democrats got a very good result. Haldens was an area which we had never worked before and the party had only four weeks notice of the election which had been called due to ill-health.
A group of MPs say the government is being dishonest when they claim it is allocating an extra £10bn to the NHS in England over the next five years.
Commenting on the resignation of Stephen Phillips, the Conservative MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham, the Liberal Democrat Party President Sal Brinton said:
Sarah Nelmes, who is currently one of the three serving Three Rivers District councillors for the Penn & Mill End Ward has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the new Rickmansworth West Division in the May 2017 elections for Hertfordshire County Council.
There were only two changes this week. The first was in Eltham North in Greenwich LB where the Conservatives gained the seat from Labour. There was a moderate increase in vote share for Lib Dems, but Labour were down and UKIP and the Greens crashed.