16 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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17 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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22 h. ago Is Farage’s win a new dawn? We could ask Labour, but they’re still fast asleep | Marina Hyde

The local elections results tell us one clear thing: the ‘two main parties’ offer a change that actually changes nothing – and voters know itIt’s been a funny old decade. Just over 10 years ago, the comedian Russell Brand was lionised in some quarters for appearing on a Question Time panel with Nigel Farage, and producing what was widely, if bafflingly, interpreted as a brilliant zinger about the then Ukip leader. “He is a pound-shop Enoch Powell,” honked Brand, “and we gotta watch him.” Well now. Perhaps it takes someone who needs to be watched to know someone who needs to be watched. Mr Brand returned to the UK this week from the Florida base of his conspiracist Christian media outlet, appearing in court today on rape and sexual assault charges. He denies them.Anyway: the local elections, where the big thing that people said could never happen seems to be happening. Farage now leads Reform UK, which even last year used to be bundled in the “other” category by political pollsters –...

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22 h. ago Keir Starmer admits disappointment as Nigel Farage hails bombshell by

‘Reform are in business. They are a major challenge,’ says polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice

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23 h. ago Why election wins by Nigel Farage's Reform UK could herald seismic shift in who governs Britain

Commentary: The rise of five-party politics means that gaining an overall Commons majority at general elections will become more difficult for any party

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23 h. ago Reform policies: What will Nigel Farage’s party actually do after local election wins?

The Independent looks at what Reform UK will do in power, and whether it is likely to work

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26 h. ago Microsoft hikes Xbox S Series prices, Harrods cyber attack and Reform's "big moment" in by

Watch today’s business headlines in less than two minutes as Nigel Farage party wins Runcorn and Helsby by-election, Harrods impacted by cyber attack and Xbox prices to go up £50.

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27 h. ago Nigel Farage's Reform party takes massive wins in English elections

Nigel Farage said his party's wins overnight make Reform UK the main opposition to Labour

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28 h. ago 6 local election takeaways you missed from overnight as Nigel Farage gets huge win

From a full recount of votes at the Runcorn by-election to a blistering row between MPs on live TV, catch up on a dramatic night since polls closed for the local elections

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3 d. ago Reform UK could scoop 500 council seats to make Nigel Farage the biggest winner of this week's local elections

Nigel Farage 's party have consistently outperformed the Tories in recent national opinion polls and even risen above Labour in some surveys.

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4 d. ago Voices: Nigel Farage is on the brink of another election breakthrough but then what?

With voters set to desert Labour and Tories at the local elections in favour of Reform UK, will the populist protest party be able to run services and balance the books of hard-pressed city councils? Of course not, says Sean O’Grady

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5 d. ago Voters deserting Labour and Tories as Reform to claim hundreds of seats at local elections, top pollster says

Exclusive: Professor Sir John Curtice said the big winner of the local elections is already Nigel Farage who he claimed is ‘murdering the Tories’

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1 week ago Nigel Farage's Reform UK party would win a General Election held now, poll shows

The More in Common polling of over 16,000 voters suggests Labour could lose 246 MPs, including 10 Cabinet ministers, with major losses in the so-called red wall

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1 week ago Why Reform winning big in the local elections could backfire for Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage needs to win big in the local elections and Runcorn by-election on 1 May to prove it is a potential party of government. But The Independent’s political editor David Maddox explains why victory could ultimately be Farage’s undoing

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1 week ago Nigel Farage says Reform would prefer SNP to win next Holyrood election instead of Labour

The Reform UK leader has ruled out his party supporting any moves to make Anas Sarwar the next First Minister.

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3 w. ago Reform will 'eat into old Labour vote in astonishing way' says Nigel Farage after by

Reform ousted Labour in a landslide victory in Tameside, Greater Manchester on Thursday night

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