5 h. ago Reform councillor investigated after 'handing out ice creams at polling station'

Reform councillor Joseph Boam, 22, is under police investigation over allegations that he tried to sway voters by handing out ice creams outside a polling station in North West Leicestershire

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7 h. ago Reform UK councillor, 22, is accused of electoral malpractice after 'giving away free ice creams outside polling station on local election day'

Video footage allegedly showed Councillor Joseph Boam, former deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council, allegedly passing out free ice creams on Reform UK's local election campaign.

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68 h. ago Never mind the flag bans, where are the policies? Assessing 100 days of Reform

Some are happy to see new faces in the chambers but many are frustrated with a lack of improvements on the ground since party’s sweeping victories“This motion is bizarre to say the least,” said a bemused Doncaster Labour councillor as Reform proposed that the council fly no flags apart from the union flag from its buildings.It would not just mean no Pride flag on Pride Day, a debate heard. It would mean no white rose flag on Yorkshire Day, no Rovers flag celebrating the football team winning the league, no St George’s flag marking England’s Lionesses’ Euros triumph, and no green flags celebrating municipal park management achievements in the city’s green spaces. The motion was “a waste of time and a waste of resources”, one councillor said. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Glasgow councillor at centre of 'white racism' row joins Reform

Audrey Dempsey will become the party’s second councillor in Glasgow

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4 d. ago Glasgow race row councillor becomes Reform UK's latest recruit

Audrey Dempsey previously claimed "racist attacks on white children and teachers" in schools had increased.

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1 week ago Trial date set for Reform councillor charged with threatening to kill his wife

Kent county councillor Daniel Taylor, 35, for Cliftonville, near Margate had the Reform party whip removed after his arrest in June.

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1 week ago Former Scottish Labour Fife councillor joins Reform where her values ‘are most aligned’

Two councillors in Fife have now switched to Nigel Farage’s Reform party.

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1 week ago Reform UK announces latest councillor in Scotland is daughter of former Labour MP

Reform's newest recruit is the daughter of the late John MacDougall, an ally of Gordon Brown who served as Labour MP for Glenrothes until his death in 2008.

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2 w. ago New Reform UK councillor on her 'gamble' and why she thinks others might follow

'There are a lot of ideas which speak to people and, yes, there probably needs to be more detail,' she says

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3 w. ago Councillor quits Labour and says she intends to join Reform UK

Sue Haworth, a former cabinet member of Bolton Council, has left former party members 'baffled' at her plans to defect

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