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Reform UK have been accused of a massive attack on local democracy after a local council leader banned his councillors from engaging with a leading local newspaper. Earlier this week, the Nottingham Post said they had been told by Nottinghamshire County Council's Reform administration that it would no longer engage with them or the team of BBC-funded local democracy journalists that the paper manages.
The move, which comes despite the party's claim to defend free speech, has been met with outrage. The editor of the paper which includes the Nottingham Post and its online edition Nottinghamshire Live said it was a worrying sign of potentially things to come if Reform wins the next election. Nigel Farage has been urged to step in and urge Reform's council leader Mick Barton to reverse
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