Reform UK-led council fails to attract any sponsors for union flag scheme

Party justified plan to hang flags at sites in Nottinghamshire on basis that local businesses would foot £75k bill A £75,000 scheme by a Reform-led council to hang union flags at sites across the county, which the party said “will not cost the taxpayer a single penny” as it would be sponsored by local businesses, has failed to attract a single sponsor, it has emerged. The plan to attach the flags to brackets on about 180 lamp-posts and other places was agreed in the autumn by Nottinghamshire’...

By Peter Walker Senior political correspondent