Dan Peters 01 July 2025

Chief executive defies leader's flag order

Warwickshire CC's chief executive has refused a request from the 18-year-old Reform UK leader of her council to remove a Pride flag from County Hall.

The head of Reform's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Zia Yusuf, described the response of ‘unelected bureaucrat' Monica Fogarty to George Finch as ‘extraordinary', adding she was ‘not the monarch of Warwickshire'.

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