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  "path": "/uk/analysis/2026/02/20/reform-restore/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T17:13:46.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.thecanary.co",
  "tags": [
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  "textContent": "As fast as Reform are gaining washed-up Tory MPs, it looks like they’re losing councillors to the even-further-right. Yesterday, 19 February, two more ex-Reform councillors defected (kind of) to Restore UK. And, even as I wrote that sentence today, yet another followed suit. They join party (kind of) leader Rupert Lowe, a fellow former-Reformer so […]\n\nBy Alex/Rose Cocker",
  "title": "Reform loses three more councillors to Restore Britain – following NINE others in the last 7 days"
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