Cllr Donna Edmunds has defected from the Conservatives to UKIP.
Cllr Edmunds said that aside from their stance on the EU, she left because the Tories have "abandoned their conservative values and no longer speak for the aspirational".
Cllr Edmunds is now the UKIP councillor for Barcombe & Hamsey ward of Lewes District Council.





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