
20 Conservative Councillors Defect To Reform Party; Half Of Tory Members Reject Badenoch LeadershipÂ
Twenty councillors dumped the Kemi Badenoch-led Conservative Party to join Nigel Farage’s Reform Party on Tuesday, following a YouGov poll showing that half of Tory members do not want Mrs Badenoch to lead the party into the next election. Tuesday’s 20 defections added to the eight Tory councillors who had earlier dumped the party for…