Local elections: ‘It’s Partygate versus low council taxes’

The Tories have held Wandsworth for more than four decades, but Boris Johnson's lockdown woes and the cost of living crisis threaten to tip the balance towards Labour

In many ways, the London borough of Wandsworth is a paradigm of the modern city. On one hand, it is a place where a teenager recently fainted from hunger in a food bank queue. And on the other, it is home to the sky pool", a spectacular transparent swimming pool suspended 10 storeys above ground in Nine Elms, and reserved exclusively for the development's richest residents.

The borough is also known for its comparatively low council tax - which, its Conservative-run council boasts, is the lowest average council tax in the country. Wandsworth also claims to be the only local authority in London that is cutting its share of council tax bills.