Reform UK have suspended one of their new councillors. Donna Edmunds has been suspended just days after being elected.
Donna Edmunds had previously posted to X:
I'm a Reform candidate. I'm waiting for Rupert and Ben to give us a real alternative and then I'll defect. I'm FAR from being the only one.
Announcing her suspension on X, Donna Edmunds posted:
Yesterday I woke up feeling very proud to be one of Reform's 677 new councillors. This morning I woke up to an email from @reformparty_uk Head Office advising me that I have been suspended from the party "pending an investigation."
Why? Because I urged people here on X to lend Reform their support for the short term - for Thursday's elections - even if they felt they couldn't for the long term. According to Head Office, "This has brought the party into disrepute and damaged the interests of the party."
Let's be clear here, it is not me who has brought the party into disrepute. The party leadership did that when they unceremoniously ditched @benhabib6, and again when they suspended @RupertLowe10, our hardest working and most popular MP, back in March. His suspension provoked a wave of resignations; whole branches resigned as one in protest. I was tempted myself, but hoped things might yet improve.
Read Donna Edmunds' full post on X:
https://twitter.com/Donna_Rachel_/status/1919000042431512945
