and then, then, it was helen in shropshire, richard n devon, sarah in somerset.our amazing local election results. i have a 700 more of us elected to local councils! hundreds of new local champions listening to our communities and working hard for them. friends, local government and community politics has always been the bedrock of our party. they have been the bedrock of our recovery and they will be the bedrock of even greater success to come. for it is in our communities, doorto success to come. for it is in our communities, door to door, where we can truly hear what people are worried about and where we can build, rebuild trust. trust. the single most powerful commodity in a democracy. humbling and hard one. injuly, millions of voters put their trust in us, many of them for the first time in their lives. trusting us to stand up for them, to be their local champions, to fight for a fair deal. that trust, the people's trust, is our mandate. and now we must be true to that mandate and repay that trust in full. remember, people's trust isn't something you just wi