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On Friday, the leader of the British rectoy, Nigel Farage, said that he was now running the main opposition of Great Britain to the government of Sir Keir Starmer after his party won the Runcorn & Helsby by-election, spinning the work of work by only six votes.
The right -wing populist party of Farage made great gains against work and the conservatives through England during the first major public opinion test since the general elections of last year. The results will be declared on Friday.
The reform also seized its first mayor overnight, in the Grand Lincolnshire, while the former conservative deputy lady Andrea Jenkyns pushed her old party in a distant second place.
Sarah Pochin won the Runcorn & Helsby seat after a recount, overthrowing a majority of work of nearly 15,000 people to become the fifth deputy for the reform, capping a night of extraordinary advances by the Farage Party.
The by-election in a bastion of traditional work in the northwest of England was the most important competition among dozens of mayor and elections of the council which took place on Thursday.
In addition to a reform, the Liberal Democrats should also make major gains, in the last sign that work and the conservatives lose the duopoly they have held in British politics for decades.
Farage said that the vote of work in his heart had “collapsed and that it came to us”, but admitted that the reform will now be excessive from a much more important examination, especially because it is starting to manage local services in certain areas.
“This is a whole other policy,” he said, adding: “I think we have supplanted the Conservative Party now as the main opposition party of the Labor Government.”
The defeat in Runcorn will alarme the work, which has undergone a plunge in its popularity since its return to government in a landslide victory last July.
The siege of Runcorn was detained by former Labor MP Mike Amesbury, whose conviction for assault triggered the by -election.
The reform candidate, Pochin, campaigned on an anti-immigration ticket that targeted a local asylum hotel and took advantage of local anger concerning the government’s social cups.
The Labor Party defended the government’s additional funding for the NHS and its set of employment reforms, when it also tried to persuade former supporters of Green and Lib Dem to voted tactically against the reform.
The first results in mayor races also suggested a large swing towards the reform. Jenkyns went to victory with 42% of the votes. The reform also approached to reverse the workforce to North Tyneside and Doncaster.
In the north of Tyneside in the northeast of England, Karen Clark won with 30.2%, just ahead of 29.4% of the reform. In Doncaster, Ros Jones du Labor won with 23,805 votes, just ahead of Alexander Jones of the reform at 23,107.
Ellie Reeves, the president of the Labor Party, said: “These elections were still going to be a challenge.” She added: “We know that people do not yet fully feel the benefit and we are just as impatient of change as the rest of the country.”
The reform is currently ahead of national opinion polls With an average of 26%, compared to 24% of the work and the 21% of the conservatives, according to the survey of the financial times surveys.
Labor strategists fear that the reform will capture large parts of its old hearts in northern England and Midlands in the next general elections, which must take place by 2029.
In a sign of low expectations of work for the by -election, Starmer did not visit the constituency as the election day approaches.
The results due later Friday should also highlight the difficult situation within the reach of Kemi Badenoch, the conservative leader, with her party which plans to lose hundreds of seats on the board.
The conservatives face a threat from reform in the North and East and Center-Center Libs, who hope for large gains in the South Councils. The results of these competitions will start to spend Friday afternoon.
This set of English councils was disputed for the last time when former conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson enjoyed increased popularity thanks to the deployment of vaccines during the Pandemic COVID-19.
The secretary in the shade of the Conservatives, Kevin Hollinrake, said: “If we lose half of our seats, which I think we will probably do, it will be a bad night for us.”
