After slating the Labour party for making it appear that acting RBC Chief Executive Dave Peasley had provided them with statistics for their local election campaign, local Tories have themselves come under fire after making claims that Professor Paul Bardos helped them with the Tory transport policy. Professor Bardos has responded by circulating an email refuting all such suggestions.

In response, local Tories have denied misleading the public, and said that they did have expert input into their plans, telling us: "We quite clearly waved a couple of fag packets around in the air for all to see prior to publishing our plans and no-one levelled any criticism at the time. Quite clearly the lack of stricture showed a ringing endorsement of our strategy from all the experts."