Footage of online meeting showed Kent county council leader remonstrating with councillors
At the Reform UK press conference, Danny Kruger has delivered his speech (see 11.09am) and he is now taking questions with Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy.
Asked about the turmoil at Kent (see 9.52am), Yusuf claimed that Reform UK’s record in local government was no worse than other parties’.
If senior party representatives from the Labour party and the Tory party had questions about every single councillor that did something that they didn’t like, these [press conferences] would go on all day.
We now have over half a million civil servants working for central government. It’s gone up hugely since – I’m afraid to say, in the last 10 years.
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