Reform announces top team for Lincolnshire with many new faces to world of politics

REFORM UK has announced the top team which will be leading Lincolnshire. The executive team includes many new faces to politics, with six of the nine having not served as councillors before Reform swept into power.

- BY JAMIE WALLER Local Democracy Reporter

The party now controls 44 of the 70 seats on the county council, and faces the task of turning its campaign promises into reality.

Leader Sean Matthews, a former Met Police officer who was elected for the first time, gained approval from his team at a meeting earlier this month.

The cabinet members will oversee their own area of council business and receive additional pay for their added responsibilities.

All councillors receive a basic allowance of £12,460. Members of the Executive are paid an additional £22,200, for a total of nearly £35,000.

The allowance for the leader of the council is around an extra £39,000, and £26,000 for the deputy leader. The positions are were filled at Reform’s first full council meeting on Friday, May 23.

Portfolio for Community Engagement - Robert Gibson

The deputy leader Councillor Robert Gibson will take on the portfolio for community engagement, which includes the task of local government reorganisation. Cllr Gibson was in the first group of county councillors to defect to Reform.

He was elected in 2021 as a South Holland Independent, representing part of Spalding, before most of the group switched to Reform in March 2025.