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NEWS ANALYSIS: From swearing at protesters outside Downing Street to becoming the mayor of Lincolnshire in an election where opponents claimed she was not qualified to stand, Dame Andrea Jenkyns has had a career of controversy and drama like few others, says The Independent’s political editor David Maddox

In a speech following her victory, the 50-year-old said there would be ‘an end to soft-touch Britain’.

Gains Labour made last year when Sir Keir Starmer won a landslide Westminster election have “largely been lost”, a polling expert has said.

Sarah Pochin took the seat that Labour won with a majority of more than 14,000 last year by just six votes.

It came as a new poll found John Swinney’s SNP is on track to again be the largest party at Holyrood after next year’s election.

The StormShroud air systems will fly alongside RAF crews on frontline missions

The StormShroud air systems will be fitted with a high-tech signal jammer to disrupt enemy radar at long range.

Nigel Farage didn’t waste a second rubbing it in after Reform UK managed to wrestle the Runcorn and Helsby seat away from Labour by just six votes.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns has been elected the first Reform UK mayor as voters in England were seen to abandon Labour and the Tories

Farage says his party has overtaken Tories after securing byelection victory, mayoralty and council seats

Nigel Farage never won a by-election afresh with Ukip, but has now done so for the first time with Reform UK