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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Reform UK-led council fails to attract any sponsors for union flag scheme

Lee Anderson gestures as he speaks next to fellow Reform politician Robert Jenrick
The Reform MP Lee Anderson, centre, whose Ashfield constituency is in Nottinghamshire, said last year the scheme ‘will not cost the taxpayer a single penny’. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

A £75,000 scheme by a Reform-led council to hang union flags at sites across the county, which the party said would “not cost the taxpayer a single penny” as it would be sponsored by local businesses, has failed to attract a single sponsor, it has emerged.

The plan to attach the flags to brackets on about 180 lamp-posts and other places was agreed in the autumn by Nottinghamshire’s council, won by Nigel Farage’s party in last year’s May elections.

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