The three major tests for Reform in Notts over the coming weeks

PARTY STILL GETTING UP TO SPEED AS NEW ELECTIONS LOOM

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The next full county council meeting is set to take place on July 10.

Reform will firstly be tested on whether it is sufficiently briefed to offer concrete answers and the party will then be scrutinised on the substance of those answers.

That is the major administrative test facing Reform, yet the attentions of the local party are also focused on two further electoral tests.

The Mansfield North election, postponed after the death of a candidate before the election, will fall first on Thursday.

Mansfield was unquestionably the biggest cause of Reform's jubilation at the May 1 election.