Staffordshire Reform councillor suspended after racist online post allegations

Staffordshire County Council's leader has confirmed that Councillor Lynn Dean has had the whip suspended.

Martin Murray says it follows "unacceptable comments" made on an anonymous account which was not disclosed during vetting.

Lynn Dean allegedly made derogatory posts on X about Black people and Muslims prior to being elected as Staffordshire county councillor for May Bank and Wolstanton.

Anti-racism group Hope Not Hate appears to have uncovered several tweets from an X account bearing Cllr Dean’s name which it said were ‘abhorrent and plainly racist’.

One post from 2023 claimed that black people had ‘more than made up’ for what happened to other black people in the past ‘with their violence and law breaking’.

Another post from 2024 accused Muslims of ‘throwing their weight around’.

Adam Jogee, Labour MP for Newcastle, previously said his constituents deserved better than ‘insulting, nasty and mean-spirited nonsense’ and called on Cllr Dean to step down.

She's now been suspended from Reform UK.

We've approached her for a comment.

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