A Reform UK councillor has vowed he wants to “get back to work” after narrowly surviving a vote of no confidence.
Speaking out on GB News following the vote, 19-year-old George Finch declared he has “had enough” of the fallout from the vote and wishes to serve his community again.
In February of this year, Mr Finch sparked a row with police after he claimed information about the perpetrators of the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton had been “deliberately withheld” due to concerns about community tensions, which of course, the police denied.
He also faced criticism for his public row over pride flags and trans flags on the authority’s buildings, all of which culminated in a vote of no confidence in Mr Finch earlier this week, which he narrowly won.
The teenage Reform representative had 27 councillors vote for his removal and 26 calling for him to remain in post, which meant that he won by a single vote.
Delivering his verdict on the vote, Mr Finch said “too much of his time” has been spent on the no confidence vote.
He told GB News: “In 2025, 48,000 people voted for Reform, we had 23 councillors. Second place had 40,000 votes, which was the Conservative Party, but only had nine councillors.
“So the vast majority of the public in Warwickshire voted for centre right affiliation of parties, that is why the Conservative Party in Warwickshire, led by Councillor Adrian Warwick, supported Reform UK to back a common sense administration.”
Reform UK councillor George Finch has declared he wants to ‘get back to work’ after narrowly surviving no confidence vote
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He made clear: “Otherwise you’d have the Lib Dems, Greens, Labour chaos that would have destroyed Warwickshire and the Conservatives supported us in making sure we get the job done.
“But let’s be frank, I’ve had enough of talking about votes, no confidences, I just want to get back and work for the residents. It took far too much time out of my job to be dealing with this.”
Grilled by host Martin Daubney on whether he “regrets his actions” in the case of the girl who was raped in Nuneaton, Mr Finch argued his actions contributed to “national guidelines being changed” in disclosing information when crimes are committed.
He said: “What me and Nigel Farage did on that day at that press conference actually got national guidelines changed.
The teenage Reform councillor faced a vote of no confidence after clashing with Warwickshire County Council’s chief executive
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“The Prime Minister came out and said they would be more transparent, and then two weeks later, the National Council of Chief Constable’s came out, said they will start releasing immigration status in criminal cases.
“So what we did allowed people to have transparency and bring faith back into our public services like the police. So would I do it again? Absolutely.”
Stressing how close to his home the crime was committed, the Reform councillor said he “couldn’t sit idly” after hearing of the incident, knowing his 15-year-old sister was also at home.
He said: “That incident happened two minutes away from my house. I had press knock on the door and my 15-year-old sister she asked me, ‘am I safe in my town?’
George Finch told GB News he ‘had to act’ following the rape of the girl in Nuneaton
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“I had to act. I couldn’t sit idly by like they did in the north of the country, in Bradford, and in areas where it happened before. I had to stand out to act, and that’s why I inevitably won the vote of no confidence. Because the people said, George, you had the community’s back, so we’ll have yours, and I stand to that to this day.”
Turning the discussion to his row with the council over pride flags, Mr Finch argued there should be “only three flags” on an authority building.
He told the People’s Channel: “Let’s be completely honest, on a Government building, on a county council building, you should have only three flags – the Saint George’s flag, the Union flag, and the county flag. That represents every single person in Warwickshire.
“And that’s what we should be doing, not deciding which preference we want to support or pressure groups we want to support.”
He concluded: “We’re there to use taxpayers’ money on fixing the potholes, adult social care, children’s services. That’s my job, not to talk about which flags.”