Reform is flirting with traditional Labour support - workers and union members. Ten local authorities are now controlled by Reform - including Doncaster, taken from Labour - plus three mayoralties and a new MP. After Nigel Farage's success in local elections last week, is this the strategy to take him all the way to Downing Street?

Reform UK has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes, beating Labour after a dramatic recount. In Sir Keir Starmer's first major electoral test as prime minister, former Conservative councillor Sarah Pochin overturned a 14,696 majority to take the Cheshire seat for Reform.

Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party snatched a critical parliamentary seat from the governing Labour Party.