London – The reform of the hard party of the United Kingdom led by Nigel Farage He pressed a seat in the Parliament of the ruling Labor Party and won hundreds of seats of the Local Council of the Conservatives of the opposition in the elections that Farage acclaimed Friday as an inflection point to end the policy domain of the two parties.
Sarah Pochin de Reforma was declared winner of the headquarters of Runcorn and Helsby in the northwest of England by six votes after a count, defeating Labor candidate Karen Shore by the narrowest margins.
It was a significant defeat for work, which easily won the district in the national elections of last year. The special election was held because Labor Legislator Mike Amesbury was forced to quit smoking after being convicted of Tap In a drunk anger.
Farage said that “it is a very, very large moment” that shows that the reform can win both against work and the conservatives of the opposition of the center of the center.
“This marks the end of the bipartisan policy as we know it for more than a century,” he said.
Runctor’s victory gives a reform, which obtained about 14% of the votes in Last year’s national electionsFive of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, compared to 403 for labor and 121 for conservatives.
But the reform seems to have impulse. National surveys now suggest that their support is the same or exceeds that of Labor and Conservatives, and hopes to move conservatives as the main party of the country to the right before the next national elections, defeated by 2029.
The local elections held on Thursday in many areas of England were an Aleccuador rejection for Prime Minister Keir Starmer Central Labor Government, 10 months after it was chosen in a landslide.
Farage’s party is pointing to working class voters who once supported the Labor. Starmer’s popularity has submerged while his government struggles to start a Slow economy. The Government has increased the minimum wage, strengthened the rights of workers and pumped money to the state -funded health system, but also increased the employer’s taxes and taxes. reduce well -being benefits.
Starmer said he understood why many voters are unhappy.
“My answer is: we understand it,” he said. “I am determined that we will go more and faster about the change that people want to see.”
The results were an even greater blow for conservatives, whose voters changed to mass reform.
The reform, which did not exist when these areas voted for the last time four years ago, won hundreds of municipal seats in the elections for six mayor and the control of 23 local councils, mainly at the expense of the conservatives.
The reform won the control of several local authorities at the county level, including previous conservatives Staffordshire and Lincolnshire in the center of England, Durham in the north and Kent County in Southeast Farage in the southeast.
The reform candidate Andrea Jenkyns, former conservative legislator, won the newly created alkal to the Great Lincolnshire region in the center-east of England. Labor retained three other mayors and the conservatives won one.
The victories will exert pressure so that the reform delivers transport, garbage collection, potholes and all other unreasonable demands of everyday politics.
Conservative leader KEMI BADENOCHThat he could now face a feast revolt, published in X that he was “determined to recover the public’s confidence and the seats we have lost.”
The results only give a partial snapshot of the feeling of voters. Many areas, including London, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, had no elections. Participation for local surveys is typically much lower than in a national choice.
And the reform is not the only story. The centrist Liberal Democrats He obtained profits by winning richer and more socially liberal voters away from the conservatives.
Reform UK is the last of a series of matches led by Farage, a veteran hard law politician who was crucial to get Britain out of the European Union Through a 2016 referendum. A charismatic activist is a divisive figure that has said that many migrants come to the United Kingdom of cultures “alien to ours.”
The reform combines the long -standing political issues of Farage, strong borders, braking immigration, with policies that remember The president of the United States, Donald Trump, administration. During the campaign, Farage said he plans “a doubt for each county” in England, inspired by Elon Musk’s contentious expenses agency.
The political scientist of the University of Strathclyde, John Curtice, said the results showed that the policy in Great Britain, dominated for a long time by the two great parties, has been fragmented.
“The reform is now representing a great threat to both conservatives and for work,” he told the BBC.
As for whether the domain of two parts will continue, “the questioning sign on that has just been three or four times,” Curtice said.
