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HOUNSLOW
Lambo-loving, disabled-parking-space-nicking Labour councillor Farhaan Rehman has lost his seat – but his sister-in-law won – in the same ward.

WARWICKSHIRE
Reform's county council leader George Finch is now also leader of Nuneaton and Bedworth borough council, backed by his dad.

ESSEX
Reform has replaced the Ukrainian flag outside the council HQ with a second union flag, and launched a judicial review against plans for unitary authorities.

ENFIELD
A new Green councillor was a Labour campaigner in 2015, a Conservative candidate in 2018, and a Lib Dem supporter in 2019!

MERTON
Labour clung on in the south London borough, but celebrations were short-lived thanks to the rocky takeover of the allotments service from contractor idverde.

READING
The Labour-run council binned the belongings of a rough sleeper with Down syndrome, weeks after launching a homelessness and rough sleeping strategy.

LINCS, NOTTS, LEICS
Reform continues to trumpet the JCB PotHole Pro, made by a firm that donated £200,000 to the party last year.


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