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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu

Reform UK accused of serving a ‘plate of chaos’ at Leicestershire county council

Joseph Boam wearing a suit with a tie in the light blue of Reform UK
As well as being deputy leader, Joseph Boam was also the council’s cabinet lead member for adults. Photograph: @ReformNWL/X

A Reform UK-led county council has served its residents a “plate of chaos” from the start of its leadership, according to its Conservative opposition, after its 22-year-old deputy leader was removed three months into the job.

Joseph Boam, elected in May as a Reform councillor for Leicestershire county council, had also been stripped of his cabinet brief for adult social care and communities, said the leader of the Leicestershire Conservatives, Deborah Taylor.

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