Overview

• Reform UK candidate Carmelo Colasanto won the Llangennech seat on Carmarthenshire County Council on August 6, marking the party’s fourth electoral win in Wales.
• Martin John Stevens claimed the Goytre ward by-election in Monmouthshire, becoming Reform’s first community councillor in the county.
• Reform-led authorities in Durham and Staffordshire marked their first 100 days by rescinding formal climate emergency declarations, renaming cabinet roles, and launching a “care emergency” for social services.
• The party asserts it has identified more than £100 million in savings across ten councils by pausing EV upgrades and rolling back green schemes, but opposition figures describe the figures as short-sighted and disputed.
• Senedd member Laura Anne Jones’s defection from the Conservatives and successive by-election victories underscore Reform’s expanding influence over traditional Labour and Conservative strongholds.