There's still several years until we're likely to get another General Election, but it's no longer a stretch to consider the possibility of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister and Reform UK as the ruling party.
Until very recently however, we had precious little evidence of how and what Reform would actually do in power, since they had very little experience of actually running anything.
All that changed in May though, as the party swept to victory in a host of local and mayoral elections across the North and nationwide, putting them in charge of local councils and metro mayoral authorities.
How have they been doing since - and what lessons can we draw from Reform UK locally about what they would do if put in charge of the country?
To find, Rob Parsons speaks to journalists from the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme:
Paul Faulkner, covering Lancashire County Council
Bill Edgar, covering Durham County Council
Andrew Spence, covering Hull and East Yorkshire's mayoral Luke Campbell
The Northern Agenda is a Reach production, presented by Rob Parsons and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.
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