On 10 January 2025, 10 Reform councillors who had been a mixture of county, town, and parish councillors, from Derbyshire, at the same time resigned through the party. They reported the get together was becoming run within an "increasingly autocratic manner" because Farage's return as leader. Farage told the BBC https://join-reform-uk-durham-mak91357.blogrenanda.com/40912032/not-known-facts-about-reform-candidate-county-durham