He was Reform's only MP and will be hoping for victory in Ashfield - but polls currently suggest that Reform won't win any of the Nottinghamshire seats
Reform UK has already made a lot of noise in Nottinghamshire . Parading its only sitting MP on an open-top bus earlier this year, the party blocked up supermarket car parks and hurtled a top deck full of journalists down the M1.
For the Reform UK Party, which grew out of Nigel Farage's Brexit Party, holding on to their only MP will be vital. No surprise then that Mr Farage has chosen Ashfield as one of the first areas he will visit on his tour of the constituencies Reform wants to win.The party has pledged to stand a full slate of candidates across the country, but it is here in Nottinghamshire that the future of Reform UK will be decided.
The story of the 2019 general election was the Tories overturning Labour majorities that had been in place for decades across the North and Midlands. That story had its origins a couple of years earlier at the 2017 general election, when Mansfield was one of a tiny number of solid Labour seats that the Conservatives ended up gaining.
Yet polls currently suggest that Reform won't win any of the Nottinghamshire seats, even in Ashfield. Losing Lee Anderson would be a huge blow to the party, but it will also be closely watching the figures elsewhere in Nottinghamshire.
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