Reform councils have saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds in little more than six months, the party will claim today.

The head of the party’s Trump-inspired cost-cutting unit will hail the achievements of the dozen town halls it has controlled since the May elections.

Richard Tice is set to produce figures showing that Reform’s local authorities are making savings totalling £331million by ending wasteful spending – as well as filling in more than 136,000 potholes.

Mr Tice, the party’s Deputy Leader as well as Head of its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) unit, said last night: ‘Since May, Reform UK councillors have been getting on with the job of cleaning up the mess of past Tory administrations.

‘This is only the start of our plans at local government level, later today I will outline our plan for the coming Monday. Reform will fix broken Britain.’

Many of the cost savings he will highlight at an event in London this morning come from Reform-led councils abandoning green policies.

In both Kent and in County Durham, the party claims it will save tens of millions by ‘undeclaring’ the climate emergency declared by previous administrations.

In Staffordshire the Reform-led cabinet says it has saved more than £4m by pulling out of a project for electric car charging, as well as stopping land used to grow food being sold off for eco projects.

And in Leicestershire, Reform has reallocated £2m earmarked for net zero plans to build flood defences instead.

Richard Tice (pictured) is set to produce figures showing that Reform’s local authorities are making savings totalling £331million by ending wasteful spending

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (second left) and deputy leader Richard Tice (second right)

The party’s flagship town hall in Kent expects to save £7.5m by 2030 by scrapping the planned transition of its fleet to electric vehicles.

It has also cut councillors’ allowances by 5 per cent and cancelled the planned sale of County Hall, which it claims will save £14m.

Kent is said to have also saved £5.5m by renegotiating its debts, saving £1,820 a day in interest payments alone.

Similarly in Lincolnshire, Reform says it has successfully reduced the council’s debt by £7m and will save another £30m by renegotiating an IT contract.

Its councillors in Lancashire are said to have made £1.7m in savings in IT and digital services, another £850,000 by selling off unused land and £3m by using minibuses instead of taxis to take children with special educational needs to school.

All of the Reform-led councils have also made efforts to fill thousands of potholes on local roads, with 136,705 repaired since May.

Derbyshire has achieved the highest total, 28,000, getting rid of a huge backlog and reducing complaints about damage to cars.

And in Staffordshire the county council has obtained a Pothole Pro machine from a local JCB factory to speed up repairs.

But Labour accused Reform councils of descending into ‘chaos and infighting’, citing Kent where seven of its councillors have now been expelled after a video of a heated meeting was leaked.

A Labour spokesman said: ‘For all their talk about saving money, the story of Reform in local government has been one of promising big savings and council tax cuts, then failing to deliver, slashing frontline services and hiking council tax instead.’