Reform wants to cut council diversity roles. The problem is there are already barely any

Reform’s former chair, Zia Yusuf, pictured with Nigel Farage, is head of its self-styled ‘Doge’ team intent on finding council savings. Photograph: Guy Bell/Shutterstock

Councils run by Reform UK have an average of fewer than 0.5 diversity and equality roles each, it has emerged, calling into question the party’s stated aim to save significant sums of money by cutting such jobs.

According to freedom of information requests, across the 10 Reform-run English councils there was a combined 4.56 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs connected to equality and diversity, not including roles required by law such as those for inclusion in education, including for pupils with disabilities.