1 hour ago Beware of Reform and false promises as Farage celebrates election victories

Record View says any suggestion Farage is a friend of the working class is pure codswallop.

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4 h. ago Downing Street ramps up efforts to stop housing asylum seekers in hotels after Reform surge in local elections

Senior Labour politicians believe the approach is having a negative effect on the government's popularity and is playing directly into Nigel Farage's hands.

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6 h. ago Main party leaders under pressure as Reform sweeps to victory in local elections

Reform picked up 10 councils and more than 600 seats in an election that Nigel Farage hailed as ‘the death of the Conservative Party’.

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7 h. ago Tory wipeout as Conservatives lose every single council and Labour is decimated... while Nigel Farage's Reform bags local election landslide

The Conservative Party has lost every council it was defending in the elections after it found itself squeezed between Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats.

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11 h. ago England 2025 local election results in full: Live updates of council results

Nigel Farage's Reform has routed the Tories and Labour in their backyards, securing a swathe of big authorities for the first time because of a Conservative collapse.

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11 h. ago Map: Where have Reform performed best in local council elections?

Results are still being counted, but Reform has already won majority control of seven councils and won hundreds of seats.

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11 h. ago Nigel Farage’s Reform UK hammers Tories and Labour in local election rout

Big two parties lose ground while rightwing rival surges in council and mayoral polls

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12 h. ago Nigel Farage says Reform 'will win the next general election' as he celebrates victories

His party has swept to victory across more than half a dozen English councils

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12 h. ago After Runcorn, Labour now needs to prove itself to the electorate – the future of the country depends on it

Editorial: Pragmatic, practical moves can be taken to restore the trust many have lost in the government

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12 h. ago Alone centre stage, for Nige this was his triumph and no one else’s | John Crace

No thanks for Reform’s new MP and mayor, they were mere decoration on Farage’s victory lapNigel Farage is one of this century’s survivors. A man who walked away from not just a plane crash but any number of iterations of parties carved in his image. Rising from near-death experiences time and again. The last cockroach standing after a nuclear holocaust.In Reform, Nige has found his most successful reinvention yet. You’ve got a grievance? Then Farage is there to verbalise it and sell it back to you. Always on hand to spot division and feed on it. The politics of the far right may be his preferred habitat – he’s never yet come across an asylum seeker he didn’t want to deport – but he’s nothing if not the consummate opportunist. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Local elections 2025: All the bombshells from Tory bloodbath to Reform's victories

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage boasted that the results showed the 'beginning of the end of the Conservative Party'. Here The Mirror looks at the key moments from the 2025 local elections

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13 h. ago Britain goes for Reform: Voters tell us why they have turned to Nigel Farage's party as Labour and Tories take beatings across the nation

Voters tell us why they have turned to Nigel Farage's party as Labour and Tories take beatings across the nation.

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13 h. ago Farage vows to ‘resist’ asylum hotels as Reform celebrates major gains

Mr Farage’s party has gained hundreds of seats and taken control of five councils.

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13 h. ago Fact check: Reform UK’s NHS policy and Labour’s free breakfast clubs pledge

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

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14 h. ago Nigel Farage aide 'Posh George' arrested on suspicion of domestic violence

Convicted felon George Cottrell and his former Miss Montenegro girlfriend Anjela Vukadinovic deny the allegations following the 3am incident at a luxury Mediterranean resort

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14 h. ago Farage warns council staff to look for other jobs after Reform takes control of Durham

Nigel Farage has warned council staff to look for other jobs after Reform took control of Durham.

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14 h. ago Tories hail ‘significant’ mayoral election win after widespread losses

Party leader Kemi Badenoch previously warned the local elections would be tough for the Conservatives.

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15 h. ago Farage hails Reform as ‘main opposition’ after gaining MP and councils

Reform UK has won Staffordshire and Lincolnshire councils from the Conservatives and taken control of Durham County Council.

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16 h. ago Reform win control of first two councils, crushing the Conservatives

Nigel Farage's party has secured enough seats for a majority at Staffordshire County Council which the Conservatives had held

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16 h. ago Nigel Farage is a 'real political threat' following English election victories, says John Swinney

The First Minister accused Nigel Farage of peddling "false hope" to voters.

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