Nigel Farage has hailed the local election results as “the end of two-party politics” and “the death of the Conservative Party” as both Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer issued apologies.
All 23 councils have now been announced, with Reform UK winning 10, the Liberal Democrats three, and another 10 now under no overall control – while Reform’s Sarah Pochin also dramatically beat Labour in a by-election for Runcorn and Helsby by six votes, overcoming a majority of more than 14,000 a year ago. And Mr Farage’s party also won two mayoral elections.
