‘Humiliated Tories’ and ‘angry Labour’: what the papers say about Reform’s local election rout

<p>Success of hard-right party is a ‘sobering day’ for Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, UK papers report after a ‘populist wave sweeps England’</p><p>Saturday papers in the UK were dominated by the Reform party’s victory at the polls, in which it gained an MP at Labour’s expense and won a string of local councils.</p><p>A jubilant Nigel Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives and pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block asylum seeker accommodation and dismantle equalities programmes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/03/humiliated-tories-and-angry-labour-what-the-papers-say-about-reforms-local-election-rout">Continue reading...</a>