The councillor had posted on social media about her plans to defect from Reform UK after the election

A newly elected councillor has quit Reform UK after she was suspended over a social media post just days after being elected.

Donna Edmunds, who was elected in Hodnet in Shropshire, was suspended for writing on X, formerly Twitter, that she was planning to defect from the party after the local elections.

Ms Edmunds on Sunday had written on the platform that she had been suspended from the party “pending an investigation”.

She had previously posted about waiting for the party’s ousted MP Rupert Lowe to set up a challenger party “and then I will defect”.

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