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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

Tories call for information watchdog to probe Reform UK’s data requests

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, with Zia Yusuf. (Jeff Moore/PA) - (PA Wire)

The information watchdog should open an investigation into Reform UK, because of risks around data it has requested for its town hall cost-cutting drive, the Conservatives have said.

Nigel Farage’s political party has requested a broad swathe of information from the councils it now controls across England, as it begins an initiative to drive down local public spending based on the US’s Department of Government Efficiency, also known as Doge.

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