Labour’s Lead Is Firm, Reform Gains: Five Lessons From the By-Elections
- Results show Labour’s poll lead is translating into votes
- Rise of anti-immigration Reform UK is concern in Tory circles
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The Labour Party handed the governing Conservatives two thumping defeats in a pair of special elections on Thursday in a setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that reinforces the sense that the opposition is on course to win power at a general election due in the next year.
Labour stormed to wins in both Wellingborough, in the midlands, and Kingswood in southwest England, in competitions where Reform UK, the party founded by Tory nemesis Nigel Farage, came third.