Reform’s Traitors spin off at Kent Council. There were 57 Councillors. Now there are 48
In recent weeks the Reform led Kent County Council has been a running a Traitors spin off. Reform Councillors have been banished (although hopefully not murdered) after a video showing in-fighting in a Reform Group meeting was leaked to the Guardian.
With the final programme in the BBC’s Celebrity Traitors due to air on 6th November its been reported (Guardian report below) that a further banishment has taken place in the Kent spin off. The number of Reform Councillors elected in May 2025 was 57 but now stands at 48.
Reform have commented that comings and goings at local Councils are common, true and enough, but losing almost 20% of elected Councillors in six months is impressive. In addition, it may be recalled that Reform’s pitch was that they would do things differently to other parties. This seems to be true. Nowhere else has a Council run a Traitors spin off this autumn
Guardian report
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has suspended yet another member of its ‘flagship’ county council in Kent as it held its first full meeting since the party’s councillors were thrown into crisis by a leaked meeting revealing bitter internal tensions.
The departure of Isabella Kemp, who has also been working as a data protection officer at Reform’s HQ, means that Reform has lost nine of the 57 councillors elected during the local elections in May.
The latest turmoil comes after the Guardian published a recording of an incendiary internal meeting in which the council leader, Linden Kemkaran, told dissenting Reform UK colleagues they had to “fucking suck it up” if they didn’t like her decisions.
Four Reform councillors were suspended shortly after the leak, while one of those and another who had been suspected over separate allegations have now formed an “Independent Reformers” group on the council.
Kemkaran faced questions at a full meeting of the council on Thursday about the real-world impact of the suspension of Kemp, who had been chair of the adult social care and public health cabinet committee.
The Liberal Democrats, who are the second largest group with 12 councillors, appealed to Kemkaran to restore Kemp, who now sits as an independent, as chair of the important committee.
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