Farage criticises BBC over racism allegations and claims one fellow pupil said he was ‘offensive’ but not racist – as it happened

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Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, said that in Essex county council elections were postponed. He said district councils were being replaced with a new pretty amorphous unitary authority". Because of that, the area also needed a clear elected figure", a mayor, he said.

Fahnbulleh said the government wanted to create strong, unitary councils. He said that would be a difficult concept for Reform UK to understand, given the absolute shambles that we're seeing in the councils that they control".

The government had a moral and a legal obligation to honour its side of the bargain