Flush from their barnstorming performance in last week’s council elections, Reform UK have announced that their latest flagship policy will be… flags.

On Monday, Zia Yusuf, the party’s chairman, announced that in the local authorities under Reform control, only the St George’s Cross, the Union Flag and county flags could be flown on public buildings.

After a backlash, the party confirmed that county flags would be allowed, too, at official buildings in the the 10 regions it won control of on Thursday: Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Doncaster, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

“No other flags will be permitted to be flown on its flag-poles, balconies, reception desks or council-chamber wall,” Yusuf wrote in a post on X.