REFORM ROUND-UP
IT’S only a month since Reform UK won Kent county council, but things are already getting a bit Trumpy in the Garden of England. Council officers witnessed the first steps of an Elon Musk-style “DOGE” inspection of its books headed by baseball-cap-wearing, 28-year-old tech entrepreneur Nathaniel Fried and supervised by party chairman Zia Yusuf. But the first cut seemed to be, er, themselves when both resigned (following Yusuf’s objection to a debate on burqa bans), before then un-resigning two days later.