At the start of this week, Kent County Council was officially made the test tube for Reform UK’s Doge (Department of Government Efficiency).

Explicitly modelled on the US version headed by Elon Musk until very recently, the organisation was meant to root out the profligacy and waste the party views as endemic to the public sector.

However, both the Doge across the pond and the one probing County Hall have lost key figures in recent days, leaving the future of the project up in the air. Is the Doge already doomed?

What’s happened?

Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf arrived in Maidstone on Monday to announce the start of the Doge’s examination of Kent County Council’s (KCC) books. He was accompanied by long-time financier of the Eurosceptic Right Arron Banks and tech entrepreneur Nathaniel Fri

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