Reform UK has gained its first seat on Walsall Council.

The party won a by-election in Pelsall yesterday, Thursday, September 11.

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Graham Eardley was voted in with 1,231 votes in the ward, traditionally a Conservative stronghold.

The 59-year-old said he would speak up for Pelsall, ‘ask questions and get answers’ around the York’s Bridge construction and tackle the issue of motorbikes on McClean Way.

Coun Eardley, who lives in Pelsall, launched a petition calling on Walsall Council to close any hotels in the borough being used for asylum seekers and reopen them for public use.

Government figures from August confirmed no hotels in the borough were being used for such a purpose.

The by-election was called fo

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