Improvement in Devon has seen two county councilors at the UK party and one election agent has informed the police by a colleague on election expenses.

Neil Stevens and his brother Tony were selected to improve in May and in documents viewed by BBC allegations, Neil Stevens spent about £ 170 more than the expedition range.

This was informed to the police by Ed Hill, which was also selected for improvement in May and was the president of the Exeter Branch, but whatever the party says, it was removed from the post that was bringing it to “disoriently”.

Neil Stevens said that he misunderstood the process and his election agent Rob Sheridan said he was “confident” that there was no error. Tony Stevens refused to comment.

Reform UK Party won 18 seats in the Devon County Council elections held on 1 May – became the second largest party in the council behind Liberal Democrats.

Neil Stevens won the Alfington and County seat with 1,126 votes – 72 votes ahead of Labor candidate Yavon Atkinson, a third on 1,030 votes with Liberal Democrats.

County Council elections, Expenditure limits are determined in each ward according to the number of voters.,

The boundary in Alphaington and the couch was set at £ 1,827.04 – although election expenses for Stevens were shown by the return papers that they spent £ 1,995.72.

Hill was the election agent for Stevens earlier, but the papers seen by the BBC show Sheridan were appointed as election agent on June 3, a day before the election expenses were presented.

Hill also alleged that the £ 250 podcast recording expenditure claimed by Tony Stevens, which won their Exvick and St. Thomas seat by 22 votes, should be divided equally among the brothers – further enhancing the expenses of Neel Stevens.

Hill said that on June 1, he reported his concerns related to the police and Election Commission from Sheridan and Neil and Tony Stevens.

He said that he had “a clear promise to the people of the Exeter” to put our candidates and councilors on the same high standards “.

A spokesperson of the National Reform UK Party told the BBC: “Ed Hill has been removed as the chairman of the UK Exeter after bringing the party into disarray.

“Currently an internal investigation is underway in this case, so we will not comment further.”

Neil Stevens told Local Democracy Reporting Services (LDRS) He believed that the spending limit was only related to the money that he personally contributed to his campaign – £ 1,703.60 – and not for donations of £ 1,703.60 – and £ 292.12, which means that he believed that he was below the range of expenditure.

Sheridan told LDRS that he was “confident” that there was no error and the third party had investigated him.

He said that further investigation was being done for the return, and if there was an error, a revised return would be filed.

The range of more than the limit on the expenses of the candidate may be an unlimited penalty, while making a false announcement attracts the same sentence and/or sentence of up to six months to a lower serious summary sentence, or a jail sentence of up to 12 months.

A spokesperson of the Election Commission said that the spending limit “applies to all expenses during the regulated period in the run -ups in local elections” in which any personal money was spent and received donations received.

It said: “Any allegation of spending on the border will be a case for the police.”

The Devon and the Cornwal police did not respond to the remarks requests.