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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Helen Livingstone

‘Humiliated Tories’ and ‘angry Labour’: what the papers say about Reform’s local election rout

Composite of UK front pages including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, iWeekend, Financial Times and Daily Mail
Saturday’s front pages after Nigel Farage’s Reform party trounced Labour and the Conservatives in local elections. Composite: The Guardian/Daily Telegraph/Daily Mail/Financial Times/Times/i/Independent

Saturday papers in the UK were dominated by the Reform party’s victory at the polls, in which it gained an MP at Labour’s expense and won a string of local councils.

A jubilant Nigel Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives and pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block asylum seeker accommodation and dismantle equalities programmes.

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