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Shut-out of Nottingham Post and its website reversed after threat of legal action over damaging freedom of expression

Publisher says stopping it from talking to Nottinghamshire council’s leader is breach of the right to free expression

COMMENT: As Nigel Farage attacked the state of free speech in the UK in front of a congressional committee in Washington DC, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox discusses Reform’s attitude to a free press

The proposed reorganisation of council boundaries was probably not the issue which prompted British voters to elect hundreds of Reform councillors at May’s local elections.

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The Reform leader of Nottinghamshire County Council has denied he told his councillors not to give interviews to a local newspaper.

Editorial: Elected politicians should expect to be scrutinised. This attack on journalists is an attack on democracy too

The editor of the Nottingham Post said the move was a ‘worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election’

Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move