News Analysis: Tories make overtures to the sector

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 14 May 2008

The party had been courting charities for a while before its recent local poll successes.

The local government map of England and Wales is now an unmistakable shade of blue after the May elections. The Conservatives won control of 12 new councils, taking their total to 65. By contrast, Labour and the Liberal Democrats can muster just 30 councils between them. If policy towards the...

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