Kent Travel Saver Rise: Poorest Families Hit Hardest
Kent County Council says a £35 rise is needed to keep its student bus pass scheme sustainable. But its own figures show the increase lands more than four times harder, [...]
Linden Kemkaran
KCC Paid £549m to Care Firms Linked to Poor CQC Ratings
KCC has paid tens of millions to adult social care suppliers whose linked services include CQC ratings of Requires Improvement or Inadequate. The question now is not who [...]
KCC Prayers Row: Reform’s Flag-Waving Won’t Fix Kent’s Failing Services
Kent County Council will now begin full council meetings with the Lord’s Prayer and end them with the national anthem. It will not, sadly, repair a single pothole, reduce [...]
Kent County Council Sits on £126m Developer Contributions as Schools and Roads Wait
Kent County Council’s latest available data shows more than £126m in developer contributions received or invoiced but not yet spent. Reform didn’t create the pile. But [...]
Taxpayer Toast and Lazy Parents: Linden Kemkaran’s Breakfast Club Problem
Kent County Council’s Reform UK leader promised to put “the people of Kent at the heart of everything we do”. Then came breakfast clubs, hungry children, and a warning [...]
KCC Adult Social Care: £62m Rise And Three Directors In One Year
Kent County Council says adult social care is improving. The payments data says it’s getting dearer. The audit report says the savings governance was weak. And since Reform [...]
Kent County Council FOI Delays: ICO Finds KCC Breached Freedom of Information Law
Kent County Council missed the legal deadline on a request about Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone meeting with senior KCC councillors, and the Information Commissioner had to [...]
Reform UK at KCC Says Councillors’ 3.8% Pay Rise Is “Reasonable” — As Council Tax Rises 3.99%
At Kent County Council, a 3.99% rise in council tax is apparently the stern medicine residents must swallow. A 3.8% rise in councillors’ allowances, however, is “entirely [...]
Kent County Council to Cut £75m Under Reform UK: Potholes, Transport, and Migrant Services Face Review
Kent County Council (KCC) has a gross annual budget exceeding £2.5 billion but is burdened by hundreds of millions in debt, its newly elected leader Linden Kemkaran [...]
A Week Is a Long Time in Kent Politics: Reform UK’s Chaotic Takeover of Kent County Council
It began with pomp, promises, and a pinch of political theatre. By Monday, it was already spiralling into farce. On Monday morning, the self-styled “Doge Team” of Reform [...]
Reform UK’s ‘Doge Unit’ Targets KCC: Transparency or Political Muscle?
Reform UK, which now holds sway at Kent County Council, has brought in its Department of Government Efficiency—known as the Doge unit—to scrutinise council spending, [...]
Reform UK’s Push for Transparency at Kent County Council Raises Legal and Constitutional Questions
Updated @ 11.20am Kent County Council’s new Reform UK leadership is facing a constitutional and legal backlash after attempting to install an investigatory team with [...]
Reform-Led Kent Council Under Fire for Excluding Deaf Residents from Democracy
Kent County Council’s ongoing failure to provide subtitles on its public meeting webcasts may constitute a breach of the Equality Act 2010, potentially amounting to [...]
‘Stop the Boats, Stop the Waste’: How Reform UK Took Control in Kent
Kent, with its chalk cliffs and close proximity to Calais, has become Britain’s symbolic and logistical frontline in the ongoing small boat migration crisis. Since 2018, [...]
No, Linden Kemkaran – Kent’s £1.5bn Budget Isn’t Your Shopping List
On Sunday morning, newly appointed Kent County Council leader Cllr Linden Kemkaran (pictured) of Reform UK sat on the BBC Politics South East sofa and declared she would [...]
Linden Kemkaran: Journalist, Dramatist, Lawbreaker — Now Leader of Kent County Council
Kent County Council has a new political face at the helm — and she brings with her a résumé as compelling as it is controversial. Linden Kemkaran, a former BBC journalist [...]