Newly elected councillors on a Reform-led council have come together for the first time at the authority's annual meeting. Most of the 76 councillors attended the meeting at the Guildhall in Northampton to approve the new leader of West Northamptonshire Council, as well as appoint other positions and make committee arrangements.

Reform UK has vowed to reverse controversial low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in all the councils it controls.

Andrew Hamilton-Gray told voters he had ‘spent most of his life serving the crown’ following his election victory