A second member of Reform UK’s Department of Government Efficiency ( Doge ) resigned last night, days after the new unit was set up.

Tech entrepreneur Nathaniel Fried was announced to lead the party’s cost-cutting unit on Monday, but quit on Thursday night alongside Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf.

Doge is the brainchild of the world’s richest man Elon Musk, who promised to cut trillions of dollars from the US federal government with the advisory body.

After Reform won 677 seats in the English local elections last month, it promised to “identify wasteful spending and recommend actionable solutions” within the councils it now controls.

However, days after Reform’s Doge arrived at Kent County Council, the department seems to have already fallen apart – before it can even make any si

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