A COUNCILLOR who joined Reform just months after being elected as a Conservative claims he would have won more votes standing for his new party.

Reform UK, which has been riding high in Welsh and UK opinion polls, announced this week Stephen Senior had joined the party and hailed it as a sign of its expansion “across local communities in Wales”.

He was elected to Pontypool Community Council, the lowest rung of local government, at a by-election in February.

But three months since he defeated the only other candidate, Labour’s Sarah Evans, to represent the New Inn Upper ward it has been announced he will now sit as a Reform UK councillor.

Asked if it was fair to the 225 residents who had elected him, and Conservative members who supported his campaign, to change parties so soon after his victory Mr Senior said: “Without doubt, I was elected as the........

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