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After UK Vote, Farage Emerges Stronger

Ten “pro-Gaza” candidates also win, including one backing sex-segregation

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May 06, 2025
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Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Reform Party, emerged strengthened from the May 1 local and special elections. Photo credit: Owain Davies.

This month’s local government elections in England, alongside a parliamentary by-election (what would be called a special election in the U.S.), did indeed, as previewed here April 28, turn out to be the most significant for perhaps a generation. They were a test for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK to see if it could match its poll numbers in an actual vote — and it proved it could.

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