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Conservatives lose councillor
Hartlepool Mail
|May 15, 2025
A Hartlepool councillor has defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK.
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Cllr Rob Darby, who represents the Hart ward on Hartlepool Borough Council, said he feels the party has “left him’ and “feels let down by so many broken promises”.
He becomes Reform UK's second councillor in Hartlepool following the election of Amanda Napper in a Throston by-election last week.
Her win saw the party take the seat previously held by Labour’s Cameron Sharp who stood down.
This story is from the May 15, 2025 edition of Hartlepool Mail.
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