With his eyes set on Downing Street, Nigel Farage has been busy broadening his top team to counter claims that Reform UK is just a one-man band.
His efforts to grow his talent pool have resulted in a clutch of previously little-known politicians bursting onto the national stage.
Among them, it is arguably Laila Cunningham who has made the most waves.
A Westminster City councillor who defected to the party this year from the Conservatives, Cunningham’s outspoken views on crime, migration and Islam have marked her out as a rising star for Reform activists. New Feature
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As a former CPS prosecutor, she was front and centre of Reform’s summer crime campaign, grabbing headlines when she claimed that on a recent visit to Chicago, people asked