Leadership PCC ditches Conservative Party whip to serve as an independentCatherine Levin6 January 2026 Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones has left the Conservative Party and will serve out the remainder of his tenure in Lincolnshire as an independent. This comes after fellow Conservative PCC Rupert Matthews fled the Tory party for Reform.
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