Farage: Reform UK has 'supplanted' Tories after local elections sweep

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2025-05-04

London (PA Media/dpa) - Nigel Farage has said the Tories will "never recover" and Reform UK has "supplanted" them as the opposition to Labour after his party made sweeping gains in local elections. Both UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch are under pressure to reverse their parties' fortunes after Reform picked up 10 councils and more than 600 seats in Thursday's poll. The prime minister has said he will go "furth......

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