With all the focus on Labour’s historic and record-breaking by-election victories in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, some of the interesting details in the results have been overlooked.
One is the performance of Reform UK – often known as the Reform Party, and formerly the Brexit party, which in turn carried over much of the UKIP vote. In Tamworth they scored their second-best result in this parliament, saving their deposits, and in both seats the Reform UK vote exceeded Labour’s majority. As former leader and current party president Nigel Farage thinks aloud about becoming Tory leader by 2026, the machinations on the hard right of British politics are intriguing…
Did Reform UK rob the Tories of two crucial morale-boosting victories?
