Lyndsey Fox
Independent Durham County councillor for Bishop Auckland, elected for Reform UK in 2025.
Lyndsey Fox resigned from Reform UK on 15 September 2026 with fellow Durham County councillors Paul Sexton and Nicole Brown; by 7 October Reform held 50 of the council's 98 seats.
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Timeline for Lyndsey Fox
Resigned from Reform UK
UK Local Elections 2026: Reform down to 50 of 98 Durham seatsBackground
Lyndsey Fox is a Durham County councillor for Bishop Auckland. She won the division for Reform UK in May 2025. She had stood for the Conservatives in Spennymoor in 2021 and in a West Auckland by-election in 2022, without success.
She resigned from Reform on 15 September 2026 with Paul Sexton and Nicole Brown, and Durham's published list of members now records her as an independent outside any political group. Explaining her resignation, FOX said she had "reported a very serious safeguarding issue on July 14, and we're now two months on" with no response, IBTimes UK reported.
Her exit, with two colleagues, cut Reform's Durham group to 51. Aaron Hillam's departure later that month took it to 50 of 98, the figure on the council's list on 7 October, down from 65 won in May 2025.
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