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 minister, has convincingly won the new position of Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. However, the party will be disappointed at narrowly losing out to Labour in the contests in Doncaster, North Tyneside, and the West of England.Most of the local council elections are being counted later today. But early results also suggest Reform are heading for significant gains. The party won 39% of the vote in the results declared so far, enough to put it well ahead of all if its rivals. And Reform also seems to have a good chance of winning overall control of both Lincolnshire and Staffordshire, both of which voted heavily for Brexit in 2016.It is the first time an anti-EU party has won a by-election afresh. Until now the only by-elections won by an anti-EU party were two contests in 2014 when the local Tory MP stood down and fought the subsequent by-election under UKIP’s colours.Reform’s seat gains have primarily been at the expense of the Conservatives. That was inevitable, given the party previously held nearly a thousand of the 1,641 seats up for grabs. Nevertheless …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnThe 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 minister, has convincingly won the new position of Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. However, the party will be disappointed at narrowly losing out to Labour in the contests in Doncaster, North Tyneside, and the West of England.Most of the local council elections are being counted later today. But early results also suggest Reform are heading for significant gains. The party won 39% of the vote in the results declared so far, enough to put it well ahead of all if its rivals. And Reform also seems to have a good chance of winning overall control of both Lincolnshire and Staffordshire, both of which voted heavily for Brexit in 2016.It is the first time an anti-EU party has won a by-election afresh. Until now the only by-elections won by an anti-EU party were two contests in 2014 when the local Tory MP stood down and fought the subsequent by-election under UKIP’s colours.Reform’s seat gains have primarily been at the expense of the Conservatives. That was inevitable, given the party previously held nearly a thousand of the 1,641 seats up for grabs. Nevertheless …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
