Reform UK LIVE: Richard Tice makes huge announcement in 'fight for taxpayers'

Richard Tice and Zia Yusuf are hosting Reform's latest press conference where the pair are focusing on the new councils it controls.

The Party's deputy leader's plan to "slash council tax bills" by overhauling council-controlled pension funds will also take centre stage.

On 1 May 2025, local elections were held in 23 of England's councils. Reform UK won the largest number of seats with 677, amounting to 41% of all seats up for election.

Immigration could be another issue that features at the event after Reform engaged in a war of words with the Church of England over the party's plans to deport all asylum seekers who arrive in small boats.

The church's most senior bishop called the proposal "isolationist, short-term [and] kneejerk". But Tice hit back against the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on Sunday, accusing him of interfering in domestic politics.

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