East Herts Conservatives have taken centre stage as Hertford’s £30m theatre opens and are eager to switch the spotlight to Bishop’s Stortford. The Tories started the project three years ago when the bill was estimated to be less than £20m. By the time they lost control of the district council last year, costs had increased dramatically. Amid accusations of Tory recklessness, the Green and Liberal Democrat administration had to find an extra £6m to complete the transformation. Josh Dean, Hertford and Stortford’s new Labour MP, and the theatre’s Cinderella Youth Ensemble officially opened the ve…