Medway councillor who defected to Reform UK calls it 'biggest mistake of my life'
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Kate Nicholson
21d ago· 3 min readenNews
Summary
Medway councillor Robbie Lammas, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK in October 2025, has called his decision "the biggest mistake of my life." He plans to leave Nigel Farage's party, claiming he was misled about what Reform stood for. Lammas also revealed that other Reform defectors feel similarly but are unable to publicly admit it.
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· 3 pulledI'm going to leave Reform, I've had enough, it's not what I signed up to, and I feel I've been misled.
Yeah, I am embarrassed about it. It was a huge mistake.
Lots of others from Reform have told me they too feel it was a mistake to defect but they're not in a position to publicly admit it, but for me I'm happy to admit it.
"I feel I've been misled," Medway councillor Robbie Lammas has revealed.
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