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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn

Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants

Party leader Nigel Farage visits the Reform UK group at Kent county council in County Hall, Maidstone.
Nigel Farage, with Kent’s county council leader, Linden Kemkaran, right, after Reform UK won control of the council at the local elections in May, overturning a 30-year Tory majority. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Reform UK’s “flagship” local authority, Kent county council, has been condemned for pushing through plans to spend tens of thousands of pounds on hiring political assistants.

The move comes after councillors from Nigel Farage’s party in Warwickshire were accused of hypocrisy in July when they voted to spend £150,000 on the advisers, some of whom are being parachuted in by the national party to deal with a litany of issues at Reform-run councils.

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