but they will hope they will do enough tonight to hold control of this council. there is one ward that will not be counted this evening because it has been postponed because it has been postponed because the eucalypt candidate died after nominations had closed. that will be counted at a later date and they may have to rely on that to hold control. hold control. good to have that early intelligence hold control. good to have that early intelligence from - hold control. good to have that - early intelligence from sunderland, richard moss at the count. with its low council tax, wandsworth has been a flagship tory borough since 1978. in 1990, the conservative party chairman, kenneth baker, famously dismissed a poor local election performance by singling out what happened in wandsworth. he used ones worth as a count of symbol for success where there hadn t been a lot of success elsewhere. i remember it well. i was there!