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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

29 councillors defect to Reform as Farage attempts to moves on from infighting

Nigel Farage has announced that more than two-dozen councillors across the country have defected to Reform UK, as he attempts to put a bust-up in his parliamentary ranks behind him.

The Reform leader said the fallout with MP Rupert Lowe had caused “some consternation”, but insisted “that upset is very much at the edges”, and suggested a report into allegations about the MP could be completed this week.

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