REFORM UK’s attacks on council pensions will be fought with the ”full force” of the GMB, its annual congress moved today.

Delegates condemned ”in the strongest possible terms” the party's deputy leader Richard Tice’s ”outrageous” plans in an emergency motion.

He announced that new employees will be prevented from joining the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in the 10 councils Reform runs following last month's local elections.

Wakefield council worker Karina Dexter said that the scheme ”reflects a simple truth: that after a lifetime of service working people deserve security, not anxiety in retirement.

”Cutting off new workers from that promise is cruel and is reckless. Let’s call this what this it is: class war.”

The motion says that Mr Tice is ”himself in benefit of arguably the most generous pension scheme in the UK, in the form of his MP’s pension” and that council workers have suffered 15 years of worsening terms and conditions.