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Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin beat Sir Keir Starmer’s candidate Karen Shore by six votes in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election.

Results show gains for rightwing Reform UK party and move away from traditional Labour/Conservative duopoly

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RUNCORN and Helsby is almost certainly the first by-election in history in which the provisional margin of victory was first made public knowledge…

In a speech following her victory, the 50-year-old said there would be ‘an end to soft-touch Britain’.

Reform have made huge gains, beating Labour at the Runcorn by-election and seizing control of Kent, Staffordshire, Durham, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire councils

Sarah Pochin took the seat that Labour won with a majority of more than 14,000 last year by just six votes.

Nigel Farage has celebrated Reform making gains against both Labour and the Conservatives across England in local votes, with Mr Farage claiming a “big moment” was taking place in UK politics.

THE SNP have said that “Britain is broken” following the rise of Reform in England’s local elections.