The hard-right party Reform UK led by Nigel Farage has won a seat in Parliament and hundreds of council in local elections across England

With a stunning sweep across local councils and a historic by-election victory, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has done what many thought impossible: cracked Britain’s long-standing two-party dominance,

Nigel Farage's populist, right-wing Reform UK party won a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday by the smallest ever margin in a parliamentary by-election in the country's history. Reform's Sarah Pochin beat Labour's candidate by just six votes.