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UK politics live: Farage announces defection of Leicestershire’s police and crime commissioner from Tories to Reform UK


Rupert Matthews, elected to post as Conservative in 2021, claims police are ‘fighting crime with one hand tied behind their back’

George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire county council, goes next. (Aged 19, he is the youngest council leader in the country.)

He claims the police have opposed his attempts to expose the immigration status of someone arrested in connection with an alleged crime.

It was dirty, run down and had major drug issues. My attitude to the task was assertive and no nonsense. That’s the approach that I will take for my role within Reform UK [advising on crime].

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/04/uk-politics-labour-conservative-reform-nigel-farage-live-updates

Author : Andrew Sparrow

Publish date : 2025-08-04 10:36:00

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