Yahoo UK’s poll of the week lets you vote and indicate your strength of feeling on one of the week’s hot topics. After the poll closes, we’ll publish and analyse the results each Friday, giving readers the chance to see how polarising a topic has become and if their view chimes with other Yahoo UK…
As Reform UK celebrates its latest successes in the local elections, speculation is rife about what its growth in popularity could mean for the party and its political fortunes. Both the Labour and Conservative parties were left bruised by the 2 May elections, with Labour losing the previously safe Runcorn and Helsby constituency in a…
If there were such a thing as landslide victories for local elections, Reform could easily claim to have won one in 2025. Out of the 1,641 seats available, Nigel Farage’s party came away with 677 – that’s more than 41%. The Liberal Democrats came second with 370 (a net gain of 163). Overall, only a…
“We’re here, and we’re here to stay,” Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told a crowd in County Durham during a campaign speech on Tuesday. With his party standing more candidates in the upcoming local elections on 1 May than either Labour or the Conservative Party, Farage lauded recent polling for Reform as “astonishing progress”. “Our…
Conservative councillors could be free to go into coalition with Reform UK after next month’s local elections, Kemi Badenoch has said. The Tory leader has consistently ruled out any national deal with Reform, whose leader Nigel Farage has vowed to “destroy” the Conservative Party. But speaking to BBC Breakfast on Thursday, Mrs Badenoch suggested the…