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’95 percent of vote was for my manifesto, not my party’ – PCC on why he quit Tories for Reform
Rupert Matthews was re-elected as Leicestershire and Rutland Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) on a Conservative Party ticket last year, narrowly beating his Labour rival by just 860 votes. Here, the politician tells Police Oracle why he defected to Reform UK in August and what it has meant for those in his constituency.