Reform UK has won the 32 seats needed for a majority on Staffordshire County Council. Darren Grimes has been simultaneously elected Reform county councillor for the Annfield Plain ward in County Durham…
Staffordshire has been Tory since 2009 and previously had no Reform councillors. First Reform council ever…
LIVE UPDATES: Reform has taken control of Lincolnshire County Council (Tory since 2005).
Reform wins control of Durham County Council from no overall control. Before 2021, the council had been Labour-run for 100 years…
1500 – Reform gains control of Nottinghamshire County Council. +35% since 2021, Tories down 21%.
Control also gained of Derbyshire County Council.
Reform gain Lancashire County Council from the Tories. They also gain full control of Kent County Council.
New Chairman John Pullinger told The Telegraph that the Electoral Commission that it made mistakes…
“Darren Grimes is one that stands out. I’ve looked very carefully at that … he had a horrible time. The Commission has apologised for what happened to him and I take this opportunity to apologise again. What happened to him should not have happened.”
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”