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Backbenchers accuse PM and his team of complacency, questioning policies and why he did not visit Runcorn

The local elections results tell us one clear thing: the ‘two main parties’ offer a change that actually changes nothing – and voters know it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Reform’s new Greater Lincolnshire mayor storms off as she accuses Sky News reporter of asking ‘divisive questions’

Results show gains for rightwing Reform UK party and move away from traditional Labour/Conservative duopoly

Nigel Farage's right-wing populist party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform in Runcorn and Helsby, a constituency in northwest England.

Commentary: The rise of five-party politics means that gaining an overall Commons majority at general elections will become more difficult for any party

Keir Starmer conceded Labour’s loss by just six votes to Reform UK in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election was “disappointing” and said the…

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.