Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is “in business” as an electoral force. That’s the view of polling guru Sir John Curtice after Farage’s party took control of councils from the Tories and Labour and gained an MP in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. The professor told the BBC that before the elections, it would have been…
In the general election last year, Labour won 53 per cent of the vote in Runcorn & Helsby. Reform was a distant second on 18 per cent. It was Labour’s 49th safest seat. But in October, Mike Amesbury, the MP, punched a constituent in the street. He was suspended from Labour after video emerged of…
Elections are being held in England on May 1 to choose hundreds of councillors, a handful of mayors and a new MP for the constituency of Runcorn & Helsby. Here, the PA news agency looks at the locations, timings and key numbers behind this year’s contests. – What elections are taking place? Voters will go…