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Local elections 2025

5 May 2025

  • Campaigners on the street, one holding Save Winter Fuel placard

    No 10 rethinking winter fuel payment cut after Labour slump in local elections

  • A poster declaring:"Say no to racist Reform UK" in a shop window in Runcorn town centre 48 hours ahead of the byelection

    Labour must offer a hopeful vision to voters, not ape Reform

  • Frances Ryan

    Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

    Frances Ryan
  • Andrea Jenkyns and Nigel Farage unfurl a union flag after her victory in Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty race. Photo by Lia Toby/Getty Images

    Politics Weekly UK
    Farage here to stay: the local elections that changed everything – Politics Weekly Westminster

4 May 2025

  • Zia Yusuf making a speech

    Reform UK to resist housing asylum seekers in its council areas, chair says

    Echoing comments by Nigel Farage, Zia Yusuf says judicial reviews, injunctions and planning laws will be used
  • Ella Baron on British politicians’ obsession with ‘change’ – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on British politicians’ obsession with ‘change’ – cartoon

    Reform party leader Nigel Farage is the latest to turn calls for change into electoral success
  • Wes Streeting appearing on the BBC 1 current affairs programme, Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg

    Streeting says Reform are real threat and may become Labour’s main rivals

    Health secretary asks public to give government time as he calls Farage’s party a ‘serious opposition force’

3 May 2025

  • Nigel Farage

    Now Farage not Starmer is feeding public’s appetite for change

  • Nigel Farage and a union flag

    Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform

  • John McDonnell

    Labour alienated its core and failed to attract Reform voters. Now will Starmer change tack?

    John McDonnell
  • Composite of UK front pages including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, iWeekend, Financial Times and Daily Mail

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

2 May 2025

  • Nigel Farage during a visit to The Big Club in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    English local elections: Farage says ‘it’s the beginning of the end of the Conservative party’ after sweeping Reform wins – as it happened

  • Nigel Farage smiling

    Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories

  • Nigel Farage celebrates.

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

  • Nigel Farage speaks while surrounded by journalists and photographers

    Reform UK’s victories are just the latest chapter of political fragmentation

  • Farage has declared a new dawn before, but this time things could really be different

  • How the big parties fared in the English local elections

  • The politics sketch
    Alone centre stage, for Nige this was his triumph and no one else’s

    John Crace

  • Enjoy this victory, Nigel Farage – because it could also be the start of your downfall

    Polly Toynbee

  • Keir Starmer told to ‘start listening’ as Reform makes big local election gains

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