The Liberal Democrats have established an internal “reform observation” system to monitor Nigel Farage’s party in local government, and Ed Davey said the Labor and Conservatives were too scared of the threat of reform to put it into practice.

Liberal leaders defended the party’s performance in last week’s local elections, saying their council races, they unexpectedly had major happenings behind the reforms, mainly due to the collapse of votes by other parties.

In addition to gaining more than 160 MPs and controlling three new councils, Lib Dem is the largest party in three other areas, in four regions, which will be the second in the reform - which will be the core of the monitoring project, aiming to review the reforms of the mayor and the council.

It is Amanda Hopgood, the leader of the Durham opposition group run by reformed operations, and Amanda Hopgood, the leader of Hull City Council Mike Ross, who plays the same role in Kent, and Amanda Hopgood, the leader of Hull City Council, who is reformed and mayor of Hull City Council and East Yorkshire.

David said the key part of monitoring is to see if and how the reform commission tried to cut services. He said many families were “shocked” by Farage’s comments, saying too many people were diagnosed with special needs or mental illness.

Other areas will include wars of cultural wars, such as reforms, banning the Council from flying the Ukrainian flag to show, and attempts to reduce climate and net zero-related work.

David said: “When you look at what the Council does with climate change, most of the work is insulating people’s houses. So, Nigel Farage will essentially say to less wealthy people, “We’re not making up for your house, you can pay higher energy bills, and we’re happy with that because it makes climate change worse.” "Is that the reform position?"

Davey's goal is to see his party as "anticipant of reform" as an extension of bullish stance against Donald Trump, with the workforce and conservatives being more cautious.

"We're going to fight them, whether it's revealing that Farage is a huge cheerleader for Donald Trump and want Elon Musk's money, all of these things," he said.

Although the Liberal Democrats performed well in local elections, they lost reform in certain key areas such as Hull and the mayor of East Yorkshire. Similarly, while they achieved the goal of removing the Warwickshire Council from Conservative control, it involved completing quite distant reforms.

That doesn't mean they're underperforming, David said. "We expect to do well in Warwickshire in the south, and we did. In North Yorkshire, we don't want to do well. It's the labor and the failure of the Conservatives that have brought reforms into. They haven't made any progress in our area. Where we are really active, reforms are replaced by them."

Another complication, he said, is the split of a very close multi-party contest, which in some cases means that the Liberals won the council seat with less than 19% of the total vote.

David said that while the reform doesn't seem to have any tanks parked on the Lib Dem election lawn, that doesn't mean it won't happen. "We are not complacent. We don't think the fight against reform is necessarily easy," he said.

"We are worried about the rise of reforms. We are of course. The question is, what is the best way to respond to this? And I don't think it's replicating them. I think it's to address their goals. From my point of view, we seem to be the only party willing to do it. Others seem a little scared of them."