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MORE THAN 60 of Nigel Farage’s newly selected Reform UK council candidates for this year’s local elections are Tory defectors, Labour said yesterday.
Labour’s study of candidate nominations by the party ahead of the May 1 elections found that dozens of Reform candidates across Britain have previously served as councillors, candidates, or activists for the Conservatives.
The most high-profile defectors include former Cheshire East Tory councillor Sarah Pochin, now Reform’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election candidate.
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
The Tories’ trouble is rooted in the British capitalist Establishment now being more disoriented and uncertain of its social mission than before, argues ANDREW MURRAY