The British reform of the Party of the Far Right United Kingdom, led by Nigel Farage, won, this Friday, May 2, a partial election in the northwest of England, to the detriment of the Labor Party in Power, a setback for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“For the movement, for the game, it is a very, very big moment,” Nigel Farage, the Brexit champion, reacted, who campaigned in the fight against irregular immigration. This victory “proof that we are now the opposition party for the Labor Government,” he wrote in X.
Confirms the emergence of the reform of the United Kingdom and the fragmentation of the political landscape in the United Kingdom. After this victory in the constituency of Runclor and Helsby, Reforma UK has five deputies in the House of Commons in Westminster, which has a total of 650 seats.
Several local elections this Thursday
The UK reform candidate, Sarah Pochin, won with an advance of only six votes about Labor candidate Karen Shore. But the plow had won the district with 53% of the votes in July, far ahead of the reform with 18%. However, Keir Starmer had admitted that it would now be “difficult” for his game.
Several local elections were held on Thursday in England. The results will fall throughout Friday. In addition to the siege of the deputies in the Runcorn region, a total of 1,641 seats within local authorities must be occupied, they are a small part of the 17,000 seats of local advisors throughout England, as well as six seats of mayors.
These elections are the first vote in England since the arrival of work, the Labor (Left-left) party of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in July. According to the first results, in addition to the partial legislative, the reform has won dozens of seats from local advisors and mayor. Labor have won three municipal elections.
A disappointment against the two main parties
These local elections are also a proof for the leader of the conservatives KEMI Badenoch, who took the reins at the end of last year of a painting of pain after his debacle of the legislative elections.
According to opinion investigations, the British express a growing disappointment with respect to the two main parties, concerned about the lack of results on economic growth, illegal immigration figures or public services in difficulty.
Under the electoral system in a shift that promotes the main parties, work won an overwhelming parliamentary majority in July, but with only 33.7% of the votes. Or the lowest proportion for a party that wins legislative elections since World War II.
The conservatives obtained 24% of the votes and 121 seats of 650 in Parliament, their worst electoral defeat of all time.
Difficult to return to the power of the Labor Party
Reform UK, Nigel Farage’s party, won five seats (then raised to 4 with the dismissal of a reform deputy), an unprecedented result for an extreme right party in the United Kingdom. The liberal Democrats won 61 deputies in relation to the previous elections, and the greens went from one to four elected officials.
The Labor Party is experiencing a difficult return to power, after 14 years in opposition. Keir Starmer, whose popularity has become surveys, could not straighten the economy and his government was strongly criticized for having suppressed some social assistance.
Runcorn’s partial legislative was launched by the resignation of Labor Deputy Mike Amesbury, sentenced to a prison sentence suspended for hitting a man during a nightly altercation. The next legislative elections should take place in 2029.
Source: BFM TV
