Staffordshire County Council elections 2025: Nigel Farage hails Reform’s Staffordshire victory
Nigel Farage says Staffordshire County Council’s new Reform UK leaders will slash climate change and diversity policy – describing the authority as one of the ‘wokest’ in the country.
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The party leader returned to Stafford Showground last night just days after delivering his final campaign speech at the venue on the eve of Thursday’s local elections.
Reform candidates won 49 of the 62 seats in Staffordshire, recording an historic landslide victory in the county. Mr Farage congratulated the newly-elected Reform county councillors, who quaffed champagne in bright sunshine during the celebration event at the showground.
He promised a ‘different culture’ at the county council under Reform, one focused on performing ‘basic functions’ for taxpayers. And Mr Farage suggested that council staff working in climate change policy should ‘go look for a different job’.
He said: “There will be a very different culture in the way this county council is run. It became of the wokest county councils in the country under the Tories. It won’t be like that with us. Staffordshire needs mega savings and we will make savings. How big those savings will be I can’t predict right now, but there will be a re-prioritisation on what a county council is there to do.”
Reform’s victory brought to an end 16 years of Conservative rule at the county council, with the Tories being reduced from 53 to 10 councillors. Mr Farage claimed the local elections signalled ‘the death of the Conservative Party’, and said the day had been the ‘most significant’ in his 30-year political career.
He added: “It’s phenomenal. I knew we’d do well. I thought we had a chance of largest party, but not within my dreams did I think we could become the party in power. So it’s a big challenge but a big opportunity too.”
