This is what Nigel Farage MUST do now to turn Reform from a successful protest party into one that can form a government: DANIEL HANNAN

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 12:11 UTC

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Nigel Farage certainly had a spectacular night. True, his margin in Runcorn and Helsby was only six votes - but to win such a constituency is extraordinary.

Sir John Curtice: Reform are challenging traditional party dominance

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 12:11 UTC

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Reform has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes - one of the closest parliamentary elections ever

Henry Zeffman: Reform UK wins Runcorn, but what comes next for the party?

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 12:11 UTC

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Henry Zeffman: Reform UK wins Runcorn, but what comes next?

Nigel Farage’s Reform snatches Labour safe seat after knife-edge vote

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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“We are now the opposition party in the U.K. to Labour, and the Tories are a waste of space,” Farage told reporters in Runcorn.

Results special: What changes after Nigel Farage’s big night?

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy have a Friday episode to take stock of the by-election, mayoral and local election results so far. Sam’s pulled an all-nighter to cover Reform’s victo…

English local elections: Starmer admits results ‘disappointing’ as Reform say they are main opposition after byelection victory – UK politics live

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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PM says he will go ‘further and faster’ on change after Labour lose Runcorn byelection by six seats

Local elections 2025: full mayoral and council results for England
Reform win Runcorn with just six v…

Furious Labour MPs demand Keir Starmer 'change course' and savage PM over winter fuel cuts and tax hikes after Reform's elections surge

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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The Prime Minister suffered a backlash from within his own ranks after Reform UK won a House of Commons by-election in Runcorn and Helsby.

England 2025 local election results in full: Live updates of Runcorn and Helsby by-election, council and mayoral results

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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Both the Tories and Labour are braced for a battering, with Reform expected to gain hundreds of councillors across the country.

Reform-quake sparks Labour panic: Starmer is warned he's 'not good enough' as voters hit back and Nigel Farage's party seizes Runcorn in by-election shock while racking up mayors and councillors

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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A jubilant Nigel Farage hailed a 'big moment' after nailbiting recounts in Runcorn & Helsby, with local elections seeing the insurgents rack up huge gains across England.

This is the beginning of the end for Starmer - the suit so generously purchased for him by Lord Alli has been branded with the yellow stripe of betrayal: DAN HODGES

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

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It was only six votes. But when people come to write the history, Keir Starmer's defeat in the Runcorn by-election will probably come to be viewed as the beginning of the end of his premiership.