Reform UK may have bagged themselves a mayoral candidate for Newham, but it seems they are struggling to find enough people to stand for council seats.
The above was posted to Twitter by one of the Conservative Party’s candidates for Canning Town South in a thread about Reform’s desperate efforts across the country. It’s all a bit embarrassing for a party that the pollsters say is the most popular in the country right now.
I have no idea who the Labour candidate is, though it must be someone Reform had a number for and who was thought to be persuadable. While we know some councillors and candidates have a transactional relationship with party affiliation, surely Reform is a step too far, even for them.
Amusingly, the Reform mayoral candidate’s blog ran a piece a few weeks ago about ‘Labour’s candidate crunch’, noting the trouble the ruling party is having filling its slate. People in gals houses…
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