[
  {
    "name": "Donna Edmunds",
    "detail": "Shropshire, suspended by Reform UK and then quit the party; later joined Advance UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Luke Shingler",
    "detail": "Warwickshire, now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Desmond Clarke",
    "detail": "Nottinghamshire, resigned as councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Andrew Kilburn",
    "detail": "Durham, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Wayne Titley",
    "detail": "Staffordshire, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Mark Broadhurst",
    "detail": "Doncaster, expelled by Reform"
  },
  {
    "name": "Adam Smith",
    "detail": "West Northamptonshire, suspended by Reform, then expelled and later resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "John Bailey",
    "detail": "Durham, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Daniel Taylor",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK and later sentenced to 12 months in prison"
  },
  {
    "name": "Sam Booth",
    "detail": "Doncaster, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ed Hill",
    "detail": "Devon, expelled by Reform, later joined Advance UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "David Maclean",
    "detail": "Isle of Wight, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Robert Bloom",
    "detail": "North Northamptonshire, resigned as a councillor, later charged with harassment"
  },
  {
    "name": "Paul Bean",
    "detail": "Durham, suspended by Reform UK, later joined Advance UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Amelia Randall",
    "detail": "Kent, switched to Ukip, later founded her own party"
  },
  {
    "name": "Gaynor Jean-Louis",
    "detail": "Worcestershire, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Angela Nash",
    "detail": "Devon, became an independent, later joined Advance UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "John Allen",
    "detail": "Northumberland, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jack McGlenen",
    "detail": "Durham, expelled by Reform UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "David Knight",
    "detail": "Doncaster, expelled from the Reform UK council group but whip then restored pending a further review"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nicole Brooke",
    "detail": "Northumberland, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled"
  },
  {
    "name": "Patrick Lambert",
    "detail": "Northumberland, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled"
  },
  {
    "name": "Christopher Marriott",
    "detail": "Doncaster, resigned from Reform to sit as an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Robert Ford",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jack Bradley",
    "detail": "Derbyshire, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Des Watt",
    "detail": "Cambridgeshire, first became a ‘non-aligned independent’ and then joined Advance UK , which he later left"
  },
  {
    "name": "Bill Barrett",
    "detail": "Kent and Ashford, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled"
  },
  {
    "name": "Oliver Bradshaw",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Maxine Fothergill",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Paul Thomas",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK, later expelled and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Rob Parsonage",
    "detail": "Cornwall, first became an independent and then joined the Conservatives"
  },
  {
    "name": "Christine Parsonage",
    "detail": "Cornwall, became an independent and then later resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Brian Black",
    "detail": "Kent, expelled by Reform UK and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Richard Morgan",
    "detail": "Derbyshire, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Isabella Kemp",
    "detail": "Kent, suspended by Reform UK and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nicola Brown",
    "detail": "Doncaster, became an independent briefly and then joined Advance UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Ian Cooper",
    "detail": "Staffordshire, was council leader but then expelled by Reform UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "David Cumming",
    "detail": "Durham, left for a job overseas"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kathy Gibbon",
    "detail": "Buckinghamshire, joined Conservatives"
  },
  {
    "name": "Richard Litchfield",
    "detail": "South Kesteven, elected in by-election in December , removed from Reform UK council group; he may have since rejoined"
  },
  {
    "name": "Edward Harris",
    "detail": "Warwickshire, now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Caroline Gladwin",
    "detail": "Isle of Wight, suspended by Reform UK, then reinstated but now standing as an independent candidate"
  },
  {
    "name": "Michael Ramage",
    "detail": "Durham, now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Nick Brown",
    "detail": "Durham, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "John Roddy",
    "detail": "Warrington, elected in a by-election August , joined Conservatives"
  },
  {
    "name": "Peter Colley",
    "detail": "Hertfordshire, joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dean Burns",
    "detail": "Kent, departed his deputy cabinet role in November 2025 and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Darren Rance",
    "detail": "North Northamptonshire, joined Restore Britain but now wants to rejoin Reform"
  },
  {
    "name": "Jack Goncalvez",
    "detail": "North Northamptonshire, joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Scott Cameron",
    "detail": "Warwickshire, whip removed by Reform UK over claims thinking about defecting and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Luke Cooper",
    "detail": "Warwickshire, whip removed by Reform UK over claims thinking about defecting and then joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Charles Whitford",
    "detail": "Leicestershire, joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Andrew Thorp",
    "detail": "Leicestershire, resigned as a councillor, later coverage here"
  },
  {
    "name": "Chris Large",
    "detail": "Staffordshire, was due to become council leader but resigned from his leadership roles and now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kieran Mishchuk",
    "detail": "Swale, joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kathryn Shaw",
    "detail": "West Northamptonshire, now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Joanne Blythe",
    "detail": "West Northamptonshire, now an independent"
  },
  {
    "name": "Graham Eardley",
    "detail": "Walsall, suspended by Reform UK"
  },
  {
    "name": "Tony Hill",
    "detail": "Hertfordshire, resigned as a councillor"
  },
  {
    "name": "Lynn Dean",
    "detail": "Staffordshire and Newcastle-under-Lyme, suspended by Reform UK and resigned as a councillor from one of them"
  },
  {
    "name": "Owain Clatworthy",
    "detail": "Bridgend, left Reform, alongside resigning as a Welsh Senedd candidate , and later joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cain Parkinson",
    "detail": "Lincolnshire, joined the Conservatives"
  },
  {
    "name": "Brandon Dodd",
    "detail": "Vale of Glamorgan, elected in a by-election in September , joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Roger Tarrant",
    "detail": "Cornwall, joined Restore Britain"
  },
  {
    "name": "Tom Pickup",
    "detail": "Lancashire"
  },
  {
    "name": "Paul Cutts",
    "detail": "Doncaster"
  },
  {
    "name": "Dawn Saunders",
    "detail": "Durham"
  },
  {
    "name": "Mark Whittington",
    "detail": "South Kesteven District Council"
  },
  {
    "name": "Alistair Hendry",
    "detail": "Somerset"
  },
  {
    "name": "Todd Ferguson",
    "detail": "North Ayrshire"
  },
  {
    "name": "Andrew Barry",
    "detail": "Merthyr Tydfil"
  },
  {
    "name": "Aaron Roy",
    "detail": "Hartlepool"
  },
  {
    "name": "Reform UK James Regan",
    "detail": "a town councillor in Epping"
  },
  {
    "name": "Reform UK",
    "detail": "that linked news report originally had a mistake over which council he was elected to"
  }
]