A newly elected councillor has quit Reform UK after she was suspended over a social media post just days after being elected. Donna Edmunds, who was elected in Hodnet in Shropshire, was suspended for writing on X,

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK won a fifth parliamentary seat, its first post as mayor and many positions on local councils in early election results on Friday which underscored the threat it poses to Britain’s main two political parties.