Nigel Farage and his party, Reform UK, celebrated a significant electoral win in Runcorn and Helsby, reversing Labour's long-standing majority. This victory marked the party's fifth seat in Parliament, highlighting a decline in support for traditional parties like Labour and the Conservatives. Reform UK made substantial gains in local elections, securing control of 10 councils and winning 677 seats, while Labour and Conservative parties lost hundreds of seats. Analysts suggest this could signal the end of Britain's two-party system, moving towards a fragmented political landscape with multiple influential parties.
"It may be a small margin but it's a huge win," he said, congratulating his colleague Sarah Pochin, who had become Reform's fifth MP and the first woman to represent the party in Westminster.
"We are now the opposition party in the UK to Labour, and the Tories [the Conservatives] are a waste of space," he declared.
"The results confirm that we're in an era of four or even five-party politics," said Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
"The fragmentation of the party system has been going on really since the mid-1970s, but it's accelerated due to factors including Brexit and changing voter concerns."
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