Donna Edmunds said she had been told her words had "brought the party into disrepute and damaged the interests of the party".

The upstart Reform UK party has emerged as a serious contender in British politics. The anti-immigrant populist movement has overtaken the main Conservative opposition to jostle with the ruling Labour Party for the lead in opinion polls,

Reform UK has hit 230,000 members in a milestone for Nigel Farage's party. It comes after the party gained more than 600 seats and took control of 10 local authorities in last week's local elections.