Richard Tice, head of Reform’s DOGE and the party’s deputy leader, is in Westminster to talk about the project six months into running 12 councils. He wrote overnight in the Telegraph that progress wouldn’t be immediate:
“We did not say it would be all sorted in just six months. The harsh reality is around one in five of all councils are already in Extreme Financial Support.”
Tice says he is targeting three primary areas for savings:
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The day after Starmer U-turned and refused to blame Trump for the war Rachel Reeves told the Mirror:
“Obviously no sensible person is a supporter of the Iranian regime, but to start a conflict without being clear what the objectives are and not being clear about how you are going to get out of it, I do think that is a folly and it is one that is affecting families here in the UK but also families in the US and around the world.”