Mark Arnull, chairman of Reform UK in Northamptonshire
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00:00Hi, I'm Mark Arnold. I am the Chairman of Northampton North Constituency and the West Northamptorshire
00:06County Organiser and now Councillor Elect for Kingsport North Ward on West Northamptorshire.
00:12And you've just won a majority?
00:13Just won a majority with a dedicated team here of excellent people that have taken 41 seats.
00:20I believe there are still three to go while you're interviewing me here.
00:23We have a majority with three to go. I don't believe we will prevail, but you never know.
00:28It's been a bit of a whirlwind of a day. This morning we rope up with no seats on council and this evening we go to sleep with 41.
00:34How are you feeling?
00:36Ecstatic. The work starts now. Many people have already asked the questions of what happens next.
00:42We have team meetings over the weekend and we'll be right to.
00:46And you're going to decide a leader over the weekend?
00:48Yeah, the process is overseen by HQ, so obviously we are a new group and that democratic process is overseen by HQ.
00:56Did you expect to do this role?
00:58I will tell you, yeah, maybe, possibly as a prospect.
01:02But we were, yeah, we had our own doubts.
01:05Yesterday morning, I think I said to you earlier, it was warm very early.
01:08We were thinking, well, not too sure about the turnout.
01:11What we've actually found there is that when we called off in the evening, the support came out.
01:15Even for myself, I saw something quite unusual.
01:18You know, I won a fairly large majority in Kingston with my two other running mates.
01:23When the temperature cooled, they came out to great.
01:26And I think that's in many cases, what's happened all along, everywhere, where we won sufficiently well.
01:30What would you say to your critics?
01:32I think the critics need to take a breath for the moment.
01:37What I've got is the confidence in the people, ladies and gentlemen, that have put themselves forward for candidacy and nomination and now election and have got themselves elected.
01:45We have a very credible group of people here.
01:48Wide experience in the public sector, from the private sector, small business, large business.
01:53And I'm very confident that we can do it for the work of council permittingly.
01:57The people of Northamptychere have spoken.
01:59They've spoken at the ballot box and we're here to do the work of council.