Craig Smith: The experience of Reform UK running councils shows that populism is not enough

Craig Smith: The experience of Reform UK running councils shows that populism is not enough

Cllr Craig Smith is the Deputy Chairman of the Leicestershire Conservatives Area Executive and a councillor for Coalville North Division on Leicestershire County Council. Six months on from May’s local elections, the experiment of Reform-led councils is already showing exactly what happens when populism is handed the steering wheel and expected to drive something more complicated than a Facebook thread. The public was rightly fed up. The country…