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YOUR VIEWS: Our community say the turmoil engulfing Reform’s Kent County Council – where four councillors were suspended after a leaked video of leader Linden Kemkaran berating colleagues – offers a stark preview of the chaos a Nigel Farage-led government could bring to Westminster

Big John, who has 690,000 followers on Instagram, ended up in a back-and-forth with the Reform UK politician

Nigel Farage’s party reported to have exceeded £90,000 threshold due to ticket sales for Birmingham conference

Whatever the Labour government is doing, it doesn’t seem to be working, yet. Economic growth – its number one priority – hasn’t taken off. The party is trailing far behind Reform in the polls. It risks presiding over an outright decrease in living standards.

Members of Reform’s showcase county council will be investigated after ‘evidence that they brought the party into disrepute’

Linden Kemkaran told members that KCC is a ‘shop window’ to show the country that Reform can govern well.

‘Reform's meetings are starting to sound more like an episode of The Traitors than the running of a major council,’ said a Lib Dem spokesman

NEWS ANALYSIS: Reform UK appears to have an impregnable lead in the polls, but political editor David Maddox highlights how the cracks are beginning to show in the councils the party runs and the ongoing policy vacuum

Professor James Orr is understood to be close to JD Vance and influential in Donald Trump’s administration with his right-wing views on abortion and immigration