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.”
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”