Fifteen Tory councillors defect to Reform this morning

Fifteen Conservative councillors person present defected to Reform this greeting - connected the Tories' 3rd time of their conference.

Leader Kemi Badenoch has defended her grounds amid the defections, saying the Conservative Party is "shedding a batch of the baggage of the past 14 years".

She told ITV: "Just past year, we had MPs jumping to Labour due to the fact that Labour was doing good successful the polls. They're not doing truthful good now.

"There are immoderate radical who volition permission due to the fact that each they privation to bash is triumph elections. They don't cognize what they're winning the elections for."

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