When Stephen Greenhalgh found himself elected the new leader of his council in the early hours of the morning after the count had finished, he arranged to meet his directors as soon as possible. He recalls: 'They suggested 10am as it was the morning after the count. I said 9am.'He started as he meant to go on. In his four years as Conservative leader of Hammersmith and Ful-ham LBC from 2006 he has become one of David Cameron's favourite town hall politicians, freezing council tax and balancing budgets. But to his political opponents he is a Thatcherite slasher of services, symbol of a new breed of hard-faced municipal Toryism.
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