JANET Reed, a Conservative councillor who lost her seat on two councils at the local elections in May, has quit the party.

She has torn up her Tory  party membership card in protest at Boris Johnson’s election as party leader and Prime Minister.

Mrs Reed was on the former Taunton Deane Borough Council and on Wellington Town Council until she was voted out.

She had been a town councillor for 12 years and a district councillor for eight.