Three more Reform UK councillors expelled from party over ‘dishonest’ behaviour after leaked video meeting – UK politics live

<p>Footage of online meeting showed Kent county council leader remonstrating with councillors</p><p>At the Reform UK press conference, <strong>Danny Kruger</strong> has delivered his speech (see <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/28/labour-asylum-seekers-military-sites-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-reform-uk-yvette-cooper-uk-politics-live-news-latest-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6900a0858f084e54fb1012d8#block-6900a0858f084e54fb1012d8">11.09am</a>) and he is now taking questions with <strong>Zia Yusuf</strong>, the party’s head of policy.</p><p>Asked about the turmoil at Kent (see<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/28/labour-asylum-seekers-military-sites-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-reform-uk-yvette-cooper-uk-politics-live-news-latest-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6900915c8f0869992d334085#block-6900915c8f0869992d334085"> 9.52am</a>), Yusuf claimed that Reform UK’s record in local government was no worse than other parties’.</p><p>If senior party representatives from the Labour party and the Tory party had questions about every single councillor that did something that they didn’t like, these [press conferences] would go on all day.</p><p>We now have over half a million civil servants working for central government. It’s gone up hugely since – I’m afraid to say, in the last 10 years.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/28/labour-asylum-seekers-military-sites-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-reform-uk-yvette-cooper-uk-politics-live-news-latest-updates">Continue reading...</a>