Reform UK prepares for real power on a council it now dominates

Beer, black pudding baps and Belinda Carlisle: Inside the UK’s first Reform pub

Once a Conservative Party social club, The Talbot in Blackpool has defected to Reform. Barney Davis heads north to see what all the fuss is about

Reform mocked for vowing to scrap LTNs that don’t exist in their councils

Reform has pledged to remove all low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) across the ten councils it now controls, despite none of those councils having such schemes in place. Zia Yusaf, the party’s chair, declared a “large-scale reversal” of existing LTNs following the party’s local election gains on May 1.   Speaking to the Telegraph on May 17, Yusuf said: “We view these schemes with the same suspicion as mass immigration and net zero… You can expect…