Reform has officially entered into a local coalition in Lee Anderson’s constituency Ashfield District council. Councillor Dawn Justice, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform in November, has now joined forces with Conservative Councillor Philip Rostance. Marking the first pact between the two parties…
Lee Anderson tells Guido that this arrangement is a “one-off” and a “special case,” explaining that Justice wants to remain on the council’s Audit Committee while Council Leader Jason Zadrozny faces trial on 12 counts of fraud next month. For Justice to stay on the committee, she needed to form an opposition party with one other councillor. Hardly a sign of things to come…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”