Reform UK have been accused of a Monty Python-style farce on Kent County Council after two of their expelled councillors formed a rival “Independent Reformers Group”.

The party has so far lost 15 per cent of the councillors it had elected onto the council in May, including another councillor whose suspension emerged on Thursday morning.

Kent County Council is one of the largest local authorities in the country and has been described by senior Reform figures as the party’s “flagship council”. New Feature

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In the local elections , Reform swept 57 of its 81 seats and considers the well-running of the council as key to their hopes nationally in order to prove they can be trusted in power.

However, since then, the Reform group has been

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