Reform UK's Ian Cooper is expected to become the next leader of Staffordshire County Council.The Perrycrofts ward ...

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Silences were observed with the Duchess of Edinburgh leading the commemoration at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Across the country, similar solemn events were held.

With a thumping success in local elections this week, the hard-right Reform UK party has loosened Britain's two-party ...

As well as winning its first ever parliamentary by-election, Reform also took its first mayoralty in Greater Lincolnshire, ...

Reform UK has won Staffordshire and Lincolnshire councils from the Conservatives and taken control of Durham County Council.