Uh oh. There’s trouble in paradise as Reform UK has suspended four councillors on Kent county council after a leaked video revealed a rather lot of infighting in their ranks. Councillors were captured complaining about ‘backbiting’ and being ignored by leader Linden Kemkaran – who fumed that they should ‘f***ing suck it up’ if they didn’t agree with her decision making. Oo er.

Now four councillors on Reform’s flagship county council have lost the whip, with Paul Thomas, Oliver Bradshaw, Bill Barrett and Maxine Fothergill ‘suspended pending investigation’. The party’s spokesperson added that the move comes after ‘evidence that they brought the party into disrepute’. It means that Nigel Farage’s Reform party now has just 50 councillors with the whip, after winning 57 seats in the May local

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