Reform UK gets first police and crime commissioner after Tory defection

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage and (left to right) the leader of Warwickshire County Council, Reform’s George Finch, the police and crime commissioner for Leicestershire, Rupert Matthews, Reform UK policing and crime advisor, Colin Sutton and Reform UK’s new justice adviser and former prison governor Vanessa Frake-Harris (PA/Stefan Rousseau) - (PA Wire)

Reform UK has announced its first police and crime commissioner after a defection from the Conservative Party was unveiled at a press conference.

Rupert Matthews, who holds the post in Leicestershire and Rutland, was introduced on Monday as having joined the party from the Conservatives.