The real winners in 2024 though, certainly in terms of bang for their respective bucks, are Reform and the Lib Dems, both of which only spent around £5.5 million. To put that in direct context, the Lib Dems spent £14.4 million in 2019 for a far poorer result.

The interim leader of Warwickshire County Council has defended plans to bring in political assistants costing up to £190,000 per year in the face of outrage from other parties.

As per reports, the decision is part of a broader initiative to reform voting laws, aiming to increase civic engagement and remove obstacles that prevent people from voting. The government has described the move as an effort to 'modernise the country's democracy'.

Tice tells developers that the era that opened with Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump is one where they will no longer be sheltered by a 'liberal progressive orthodoxy'

Reform has criticised Suella Braverman for the Afghan leak and previously said she was “too toxic” for the party’s image

A Reform UK -led council has rescinded its climate emergency declaration. Durham County Council, which has a Reform majority since the local elections in May, passed a motion to revoke the vow made in 2019.

M illions of pounds are to be reallocated from council efforts to fight climate change. Leicestershire County Council’s new Reform UK leaders voted this week to divert £2 million from carbon reduction initiatives into efforts to mitigate flooding and other severe weather events.