Reform UK Suspends Durham Councillor over Asylum Comments

Reform UK suspends Durham councillor over asylum comments

Durham county councillor Paul Bean is also a Home Office civil servant who processes asylum claims.

Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, an investigation has revealed

Campaigners have complained to the Home Office after it was revealed a Reform councillor also works as a decision maker on asylum and immigration claims.  Paul Bean is a Reform councillor for Crook Ward at Durham County Council. In his register of interests, he declared he works at the Home Office, a Hope Not Hate investigation has found.  The civil service code requires civil servants to maintain political impartiality. However, the anti-facist…