The overnight results from Thursday’s elections have confirmed the message of the polls that Reform are posing a major challenge to the traditional dominance of British politics enjoyed by the Conservatives and Labour. The party won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, just managing to overturn a 35-point Labour majority. Meanwhile, Andrea Jenkyns, a former Tory...
The Runcorn and Helsby by-election is on a knife edge, with just four votes separating Reform UK and Labour, the BBC has been told. A full recount is taking place, after party officials said the first tally put Nigel Farage’s party ahead by a tiny margin. The by-election – Sir Keir Starmer’s first major electoral...
2025 Exeter City Council by-elections results The votes cast for each candidate with vote share, party vote share change and turnout in Mincinglake & Whipton and Topsham. Thursday 1 May 2025, updated 2 May 2025 2025 Exeter & Devon local elections guide Devon County Council elections take place on 1 May alongside two Exeter City...
Becky Morton Political reporter PA Media The Conservative Party may need to form a coalition with Reform UK at the next general election to keep Labour out of government, Tory mayor Lord Houchen has said. The Tees Valley mayor told the BBC that if the number of Tory and Reform MPs “create a significant majority”...
Damian Grammaticas Political correspondent Phil Kemp Political reporter Getty Images Reform UK is fielding local election candidates who have “posted hate, pushed far-right conspiracies and praised extremists” – despite Nigel Farage’s claim to have beefed up the party’s vetting process, campaign group Hope Not Hate has said. Reform UK, which has recruited more than 1,600...
Kemi Badenoch has rejected claims of a rift with shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick over whether the party should form a pact with Reform UK. The Conservative leader has always ruled out such a deal, arguing that Nigel Farage’s party is seeking to destroy the Tories. In a leaked recording obtained by Sky News, Jenrick...
“Being in prison here is very complicated for us,” said one prisoner involved in the scheme in Nsawam. “We are controlled on everything. It gives us a headache. “But coaching is my passion, so when we heard about the course I was so happy to be part of it. “We have learnt a lot of...
Sam Francis Political Reporter BBC Voters appear to be in a restless mood as Labour faces its first electoral test since its landslide general election victory. Reform UK is surging in the polls and the Liberal Democrats and Greens are also seeking to capitalise on voters’ apparent disenchantment with Labour and the Conservatives in English...
Paul Seddon Political reporter PA Media Nigel Farage has dismissed a suggestion from Kemi Badenoch that Reform UK and Tory councillors could enter into coalitions after next month’s local elections. Speaking earlier, Tory leader Badenoch told the BBC her party’s local leaders would be free to share power with Reform if it was required to...
Reform UK has launched its “most ambitious” local election campaign with a major rally as the party looks to turn momentum in the opinion polls into council seats. The party has been neck and neck with Labour and ahead of the Tories in some polls but has been destabilised by a row that saw Rupert...