Bin collections, potholes, local schools and town centres: Ruth Davidson and Jess Phillips were right in our Electoral Dysfunction podcast last week when they talked about these issues being the political meat of local elections when it comes to what voters want to talk about on the doorstep. But it's true too that this set of local elections is hugely significant as the final big ballot test we're going to get before a general election.
In the North East, they will want to eat into the big lead of Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Lord Ben Houchen to give them a sense of where they might be heading in constituencies like Hartlepool, Darlington, Redcar, Stockton. In the West Midlands, they want to show they can take back constituencies such as Dudley, Sandwell and Wolverhampton. Another key fight is in Redditch, 15 miles south of Birmingham, where the notional Tory majority is 38.
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