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Voters deserting Labour and Tories as Reform to claim hundreds of seats at local elections, top pollster says

Exclusive: Professor Sir John Curtice says the big winner of the local elections is already Nigel Farage, whose party he claims has ‘murdered the Tories’

The Independent UK

Badenoch ‘not worried’ donor announcing £1m for Reform could be first of many

It has been reported that Bassim Haidar has announced he is giving £1 million to Reform.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are people who fix church roofs. Yes: that’s why we’re popular and she isn‘t

It may baffle our rivals, but we are proud to be local representatives who care about their communities, says Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems

The Guardian - UK

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Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says

Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

The Guardian - UK

'It will backfire': Will Reform UK benefit from John Swinney's anti-far-right summit?

John Swinney’s decision to host an anti-far-right summit in a bid to stand up to the growing influence of Reform UK may have come “too late”…

The National (Scotland)

Labour crisis as the city of John Prescott turns its back on Starmer

Canvass returns seen by The Independent suggest that Labour could be a distant third to Reform and the Lib Dems in their former heartland of Hull and East Yorkshire

The Independent UK

Key seats to watch in the 2025 local elections

NEWS ANALYSIS: Will a string of controversial policies be Labour’s downfall at the ballot box? And will Reform surge ahead leaving the Tories in their wake as pollsters predict? Kate Devlin looks at where the votes will count the most on 1 May

The Independent UK

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Why these are the most important local elections since Boris Johnson won London in 2008

NEWS ANALYSIS: Polls have put Reform UK ahead for months now but these local elections will be the first test of whether the traditional two-party Labour-Tory grip on British politics is under threat, writes David Maddox

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage Demands Minister for Deportations as Channel Crossings Hit Record High

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In Kent, the ‘silent Reform voter’ may give Nigel Farage his greatest victory

On the campaign trail in Ramsgate, the Reform leader was keen to talk immigration and his distrust of the Tories

The Guardian - UK

For political parties judging this year’s local election results it’s all about the baseline

The polls will be first electoral test for Labour government, while Reform is standing candidates in almost every contest

The Guardian - UK

Challenge to Reform UK Lincolnshire mayor candidate is rejected

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

Evening Standard

Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns cleared to run for Lincolnshire mayor just days before election

Dame Andrea said the move to prevent her from standing was a ‘political hit job aimed at smearing my candidacy’

The Independent UK

Tories urged not to ‘panic’ into uniting with Reform or removing Badenoch

Former ministers warn that leader must not be ‘pushed off course’ as Conservatives expect disastrous local elections

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The National (Scotland)

What we can learn from the SNP's massive Fife by-election win

STRINGING the words "Glenrothes" and "by-election" together is still enough to bring SNP members out in a cold sweat, after…

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch says no deal with Reform as she brushes off ‘stitch ups’

The Tory leader said her job is ‘not to give the party away’.

The National (Scotland)

Reform UK 'now Scotland's third largest party with 10,000 members', party claims

REFORM UK have claimed that their membership in Scotland has passed 10,000 people, making them the country’s third-largest political party ...

The National (Scotland)

Labour claim Tory-Reform pact 'plain for all to see'

LABOUR have claimed it is “plain for all to see” that the Tories and Reform UK are preparing to work together, after a top Conservative argued…

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Evening Standard

Fact check: Reform UK’s council election claim, Pope Francis and St George’s Day

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

Reform hits 30% landmark as more than half of Tory voters switch to Farage

The latest Techne UK tracker poll results for The Independent

The Conversation

MRP poll puts Reform ahead of Labour and the Tories – here’s why the finding should be treated with caution

Thinktank More in Common recently published an MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) poll which appears to show that if there was a general election in the near future, Reform would win 180 seats. According to the analysis, Labour and the Conservatives would win 165 seats each and the Liberal Democrats…

The Guardian - UK

Robert Jenrick rules out Tory pact with Reform UK

Shadow minister dismisses alliance with Nigel Farage’s party and asks critics of Kemi Badenoch to ‘give her a break’

The Guardian - UK

We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?

Desire for a politics that cares about global and local injustice is sharpening the political gender divide, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Evening Standard

Local elections 2025: Guide to every council and mayoral contest

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities.

The Independent UK

Local elections 2025 mapped: Where are the council and mayoral contests on May 1?

There are thousands of seats up for grabs across 23 local authorities

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