Windsor councillors leave Tory group over homelessness row

Two quit in protest after Conservative leader Simon Dudley survives confidence voteTwo councillors from the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have quit the local authority’s Conservative party group in protest after the council leader demanded the area to be cleared of homeless people before the royal wedding in May. Simon Dudley, the council’s Conservative leader, was widely criticised for asking to Thames Valley police to take action against “aggressive begging and inti