Reform councillor quits party branding it ‘biggest mistake of my life’
Robbie Lammas said he was ’embarrassed’ by his decision to move from the Conservatives to Reform (Picture: Reform UK/PA Wire)
A Reform councillor has quit the party, calling his decision to join ‘the biggest mistake of my life’.
Robbie Lammas, a councillor in Medway, Kent, said he was embarrassed about his defection from the Conservatives to Reform eight months ago.
Cllr Lammas told the BBC: ‘I’m going to leave Reform, I’ve had enough, it’s not what I signed up to, and I feel I’ve been misled.’
He continued: ‘I’ve realised I have made the biggest mistake of my life.’
Cllr Lammas’ defection in October last year was seen as a boost to Reform locally.
Robbie Lammas claims he was led to believe his defection would be one of many (Picture: LinkedIn)
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At the time, he said that his ‘trust in the Conservative Party has gone’ and said the Tories were ‘over’.
He added: ‘Not only is Reform a party I feel strongly aligned to as a conservative, but I believe that Nigel Farage provides the trusted leadership needed to save Britain.’
Now he claims his defection was ‘just used for a news story’ by Reform, adding that he was ’embarrassed’ by his decision to quit the Conservatives.
Cllr Lammas said: ‘I was told at the time there would be lots of people coming over. There would be one or two MPs.
‘I would sort of slip in quietly. I did not want to go for a fanfare’.
The Medway representative has also changed his mind on his former Tory colleagues.
He explained: ‘I left the party I love because I thought the party was over.
‘This was back last year when the Conservatives were not announcing any policy. They had not yet committed to leaving the ECHR.
‘Kemi [Badenoch] has turned it around.’
Cllr Lammas is now sitting as an independent Medway councillor and is hoping to return to the Conservative benches one day.
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