Reform UK is on a mission to “save Britain… and our many broken councils”, according to Cllr Jaymey McIvor, the party’s Director of Local Government.
Giving the first Reform UK speech at an LGA annual conference, Cllr McIvor thanked the organisation for making the party welcome after its success in May’s local elections secured it a political group office at the LGA.
“It is something very special about the democracy that we have in Britain that we are able to accept election results and people rally around to ensure that people are represented in the way that they voted,” he said.
Cllr McIvor, a member of Epping Forest District and Essex County Councils, said it was a “privilege” to see the impact Reform councillors were already having on their communities.
He said councils were facing “unprecedented financial pressures” and that local government budgeting “has been a disaster”.
He said Reform councillors would look at every single council department and find efficiencies, with the help of the party’s “fantastic” Department of Government Efficiency programme.
“Our councils are broken but Reform will fix them,” he said.