🟥 RESIGNATION ALERT – Cllr SOPHIE DAVIS (LABOUR) Resigned from Lewisham Council. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED No explanation has been given and there has been no media coverage. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 BBC London

🟥 PARTY EXIT – Cllr ANGIE O’GRADY (CONWY) Left Labour on Conwy Council and joined the Conwy First Independent Group, saying the party has “lost its way”. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED This Labour group has now lost four councillors elected in 2022. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 BBC Wales News

🔍🟦 UPDATED: All 211 Conservatives councillors who have resigned, quit the party, been suspended or defected since May 1st - that's a loss rate of 5%. The exodus continues. How many have you heard about on the BBC? Barry Manners Robin Lawson John Crawley Stacie Elson Olivia

🟥 PARTY SWITCH – Cllr LUCY MUSK (WELWYN HATFIELD) Resigned from Labour and joined the Green Party, saying her conscience would not allow her to remain. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED She is the third Labour councillor to move to the Greens this year. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 BBC East

🔍🟥 UPDATED: All 233 The Labour Party councillors who have resigned, quit the party, been suspended or defected since May 1st. Daisy Blakemore-Creedon Steven Bower Tom Feeney Helen Tucker Wayne Martin Larry Crofton Dylan Tippetts Alpha Collins Bill Hinds Zoe Reilly, Carol Nevy Ivis

🟩 RESIGNATION ALERT – Cllr CHERYL BRIGGS (GREEN) Former mayor of Abingdon has resigned from both the town and district councils. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED No reason has been given for her departure. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 South Today @BBCOxfordshire

🟥 RESIGNATION ALERT – Cllr MIKE HAKATA (LABOUR) Haringey cabinet member Mike Hakata has announced he is stepping down from elected office after nearly eight years as a councillor. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED No further explanation has been provided. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 BBC London

🟨 PARTY EXIT – Cllr ANN MORGAN (LIB DEM) Left the Liberal Democrats to sit as an Independent councillor on Bath & North East Somerset Council. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED She has left the council’s ruling Lib Dem group. BBC coverage: NO 🤔 @BBCPointsWest @BBCRadioBristol

🟥 PARTY EXIT – Cllr KEVAN WAINWRIGHT (LABOUR) Veteran Halton councillor and former mayor has quit Labour after being suspended following an internal dispute. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED He had represented his ward since 1998.

🟥 Elected as a Labour MP: Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham – has been further arrested on suspicion of rape, sexual assault, voyeurism and upskirting. order-order.com/2026/02/02/dan…

🟥 Labour councillor's dispute with his tenant over 'horrifying' damp in Nottinghamshire home nottinghampost.com/news/local-new…

🟦 PARTY EXIT – Cllr BILL McELHINNEY (CON) Resigned from the Conservative Party on North Northamptonshire Council after a row over a message. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED He allegedly referred to an opposition councillor in derogatory terms.

🟥 PARTY EXIT – Cllr JASMIN CHOWDHURY (LAB) Resigned from Labour, saying she could no longer remain affiliated with the party. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED Her statement criticised Labour’s direction and leadership in Wales.

🟨 WHIP RESIGNATION – Cllr KIRSTEN BRADLEY (Lib Dem) Gosport’s mayor has resigned the Liberal Democrat whip. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED She remains a councillor but no longer sits with her party group.

🟨 PARTY SWITCH – Cllr RACHEL PATTINSON-WEST (Lib Dem) Left the Liberal Democrats and joined the Green Party. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED Another councillor changing allegiance mid-term.

⏹️ RESIGNATION – Cllr DARREN RANCE (RESTORE BRITAIN) Left Reform to join Restore, then resigned from Restore just two days later. 🔎 WHAT HAPPENED? He claimed Restore had been “bombarding” councillors and described the organisation as “sinister”. He has now asked to rejoin

🟥 WHIP RESIGNATION – Cllr RHIANNON EGLIN (LABOUR) Left Labour to sit as an Independent councillor. 🔍 WHAT HAPPENED No reason given and no media coverage. BBC coverage: NO 🤔