Anti-immigrant Reform UK makes broad gains in English local elections

<p>Labour-Conservative dominance challenged by Nigel Farage’s Trump-aligned party, which has control of at least six county councils</p><p>Britain’s anti-immigrant and Trump-aligned Reform UK party has made sweeping gains in English local elections, challenging the traditional political dominance of the country’s two main parties, Labour and the Conservatives.</p><p>Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/02/reform-uk-is-main-opposition-party-nigel-farage-claims-after-election-wins">claimed his party had overtaken the Tories as the UK’s main opposition</a> after Reform won control of at least six county councils, one mayoralty, and narrowly defeated the governing Labour party in a parliamentary byelection in what had been considered a safe seat.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/02/reform-uk-nigel-farage-english-local-elections">Continue reading...</a>