Reform leader booted off council for failing to show up to meetings |
A HIGH-PROFILE Reform UK councillor has been removed from a community council for failing to attend its meetings.
A vacancy has now been declared which could result in a second by-election in less than three years to fill the seat previously held by Councillor David Thomas on Cwmbran Community Council.
Cllr Thomas is the leader of the Reform UK Wales group on Torfaen Borough Council. He and two other previously independent councillors joined Reform shortly after the 2024 general election, giving the Nigel Farage-led party its first local government representatives in Wales while Cllr Thomas is also its regional director for Wales.
As well as being a member of the borough council, for which Cllr Thomas is paid £23,726 which includes a senior salary as the leader of a political group, he had served as a volunteer councillor on the Cwmbran council.
Though he represents the town’s Llantarnam ward on the borough council he was elected, as an independent candidate, to represent the Two........