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The silent majority see through the lies and do this.”
In a blunt 10 word retort, he added
This is the best performance by a populist radical right party we've ever seen in this country,
said Tim Bale, politics professor at London's Queen Mary University
We can and we will win the next general election" which is expected in around four years
Farage declared on May 2 to newly elected Reform councilors in Staffordshire in the west MidlandsWe're fed up with the way we're being treated. The country's going downhill,
rued Gillian Brady in Runcorn, citing high taxes and immigration as well as difficulties accessing the heaving NHS public healthcare systemWe're all hopeful for some change,
he told AFP
All eyes are going to be on us.”
As she prepares to be sworn in on Thursday next week as mayor with a large majority of Reform councillors on the county council, former Tory MP Dame Andrea admitted
The public rightly expect more than legal challenges and faux anger from their MPs, mayors, councillors. As the Tories learned the hard way, people want change. This Labour government will deliver it.”
A Number 10 source told The Independent
I think Labour and the Conservatives made a mistake with Reform. The Conservatives have been copying Reform policies, Labour is sounding more and more like Reform,
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said ... he told Phillips
We believe the party can still be saved - if it remembers who it was built for. We believe Keir Starmer could be a great prime minister."
The boss of the Blue Labour group of MPs saidWhen they're in a position of delivering things, that's when the shine comes off."
He saidWhat we had was Labour saying ‘all we need to do is get rid of the Conservatives and everything will be better’. Things got worse,
she said
I think Reform is definitely a real threat and one that we take seriously. I think there’s clearly, on the right of British politics, a realignment taking place,
he saidWe live in politically volatile times and what I have been saying is that we are going to take a slow and steady way. There will be bumps along [the way] but we can do this, and we will do it in four years, not 18 years, 14 years, 13 years like the previous oppositions.”
She saidI'm deeply sorry to see so many capable, hard-working Conservative councillors lose their seats. They didn't deserve it - and they weren't the reason we lost."
Following a hard night for Kemi Badenoch's Conservative party The Tory leader wrote in The TelegraphIt must be obvious to everybody now that we've got to do what the people want and have policies on Net Zero and immigration which are just as tough as Reform
The veteran Conservative MP said
He should take a leaf out of Donald Trump's book by following his instincts and issuing some executive orders
she wrote in The TelegraphWe no longer have to rely only on opinion polls to indicate this; Thursday's results prove it,
he continuedThey're very clever at the way that they've pushed their agenda on to quite a underprivileged white town" like Runcorn
said local school teacher Rebecca Thomas, 44
Now the hard work begins,
stressed Martin Murray, a freshly elected Reform councillor in Staffordshire
The two main parties have been served notice of a potential eviction from their 100-year tenures of Downing Street,
said Robert Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester