Anti-Reform protest 'an attack on democracy'

The Reform UK politician poised to be installed as the new leader of Lancashire County Council says a planned union protest ahead of the meeting at which he will officially take up the role is “a direct attack on the democratic will of the people”.

- by Paul Faulkner

Stephen Atkinson was responding to the announcement of a demonstration by the Lancashire Association of Trades Union Councils (LATUC).

The group says it will gather outside County Hall at lunchtime, just as councillors meet for the first time since Reform won control of the authority at the local elections earlier this month.