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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…

The Independent looks at what Reform UK will do in power, and whether it is likely to work

The Prime Minister said his party ‘get it’ after new MP Sarah Pochin took the seat by a historically slim margin on Friday.

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

RUNCORN and Helsby is almost certainly the first by-election in history in which the provisional margin of victory was first made public knowledge…

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

Reform have made huge gains, beating Labour at the Runcorn by-election and seizing control of Kent, Staffordshire, Durham, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire councils

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.

Reform MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns stormed out of an interview with Sky News after accusing the reporter of ‘divisive questioning’.