Reform UK councillor defects to Restore Britain

A Reform UK councillor in Leicestershire has defected to a new party recently launched by MP Rupert Lowe.

Charles Whitford, previously a member of Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet, announced he had moved to Restore Britain on Thursday.

Reform UK councillor defects to Restore Britain, BBC

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said

Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Reform UK’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election has said the party would put public sector unions “under review” if it came to power, in a sign of the challenges Nigel Farage faces as he seeks to court working-class voters.

“[Reform] will place public sector trade unions under review,” Matthew Goodwin said during a speech in early December, before the by-election had been called, at which he set out a wide-ranging policy vision for a Reform government to “fix broken Britain”.

Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said, ft.com