Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured victory by six votes over Labour in Runcorn and Helsby as Sir Keir Starmer failed his first by-election test as prime minister. The narrow victory for new MP Sarah Pochin saw Reform taking a constituency which Labour won with a majority of almost 14,700 less...
Reform UK wins by-election by just six votes to gain fifth MP
Nigel Farage's right-wing populist party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform in Runcorn and Helsby, a constituency in northwest..
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Sir Keir Starmer conceded that Labour’s loss by just six votes to Reform UK in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election was a setback and said that the government needed to act “further and faster” in..
Nigel Farage has hailed Reform UK’s by-election win in Runcorn and Helsby as proof the party is no longer a “fringe” offshoot of the Conservatives. He said the narrative has been "disproved in a..
It was previously a Labour stronghold.
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