Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has welcomed 29 councillors to his party following defections from parties including the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. It takes the party's total number of council seats to 114.

Reform as Farage attempts to moves on from infighting - The Reform leader said the fallout with MP Rupert Lowe had caused ‘some consternation’, but insisted ‘that upset is very much at the edges’.

Nigel Farage unveiled 29 new councilors — including more than a dozen Conservative defectors — who have joined Reform UK, as a new survey highlighted how his party is gaining traction among Britain’s voters.

The public spat between Nigel Farage and one of his sidelined MPs is a "Westminster bubble story" and no-one mentions it on the street, a Reform UK councillor has said. Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth in Norfolk,

Nigel Farage has revealed that 29 councillors have defected to Reform UK ahead of local elections in May. The party leader says, "we are growing", adding, "there are many, many more in the pipeline that are going through the process at the moment and you will find out who they are over the course of the coming weeks".