‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance“The worst part of it was the smell,” says Audrey Crook, 58. A full-time carer who lives with her 20-year-old son, Crook woke up at 11pm one night to find a foot of flood...

<p>Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance</p><p>“The worst part of it was the smell,” says Audrey Crook, 58. A full-time carer who lives with her 20-year-old son, Crook woke up at 11pm one night to find a foot of flood water on the ground floor of her home. “It was like black water. It had sewage and everything in it, it was absolutely disgusting.”</p><p>Crook’s home – along with more than 30 others on Wyberton West Road and Park Road in Boston, Lincolnshire – was flooded in January last year when heavy rain swept across the region, raising river levels and exceeding flood defences.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/boston-lincolnshire-flooding-reform-uk-richard-tice-climate">Continue reading...</a>
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