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- Three councillors and Senedd member Hannah Cooper-Lesadd left Reform UK, becoming independents or joining Plaid Cymru.
- Reform UK accused the defectors of betraying voters.
- Councillor Lyndsey Fox said she reported a safeguarding issue on 14 July and got no response.
- Hannah Cooper-Lesadd left after a Sudanese asylum seekers speech and called Reform chaotic.
- Reform MS Llyr Powell said the party contacted Cooper-Lesadd before her defection and questioned her grasp of values.