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>A Reform UK councillor who was elected last week has resigned and been expelled from the party.

>Stuart Prior was one of 53 Reform members who were elected to Essex County Council and earned a majority on the authority for Nigel Farage's party. Prior also gained a seat on Rochford District Council.

>But he was accused the week before the elections of creating racist and Islamophobic posts on social media by Hope Not Hate.

>The BBC attempted to contact Prior. He denied being a racist when approached by the Daily Mirror newspaper.

>A party source said earlier that Prior had resigned from the Rochford and Essex councils.