With the new year we have a new council tax being set and Lambeth residents, particularly those on the western border with Wandsworth, are reminded yet again how much more expensive it is to live under Labour. Councils often blame the government but Conservative Wandsworth continue to set one of the lowest charges in the country no matter which party runs the country. “Boris’s freezing of the London element is another example of a well run Conservative authority” says GLA candidate Cllr Michael Mitchell.