Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured victory by six votes over Labour in Runcorn and Helsby as a former Tory minister became the party’s first elected mayor. In one of the closest parliamentary votes ...

Reform’s victory at Runcorn & Helsby by just six votes has set a new record for the smallest majority at a parliamentary by-election since the end of the Second World War. Sarah Pochin took the seat ...

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