UK politics: New Reform mayor suggests 10% cut to council workforce – as it happened

Andrea Jenkyns says she wants a lean, mean local government' and says she is up for a fight' with unions

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The Conservatives will come back from their poor results in the local elections but it will have to be a slow and steady" effort, party leader Kemi Badenoch has said, PA reports.

She told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme: I am sorry to all of those councillors who've lost their seat".