A Reform UK councillor has resigned just a week after being elected. Des Clarke said he was unable to represent voters “in ...

Desmond Clarke, elected for Newark West ward in Nottinghamshire for Reform UK, is now resigning from the council, forcing a by-election.

The unusually fractious, cranky and generally argumentative people that Farage’s various political vehicles have tended to attract may well mean that he’ll find this latest lot no easier to lead, writ ...