'Fightback has begun': Farage-led Reform UK reshapes political scene

Britain Realigned – 28/4/25

Welcome back to your round-up of stories from Byline Times and Byline Supplement. Last Friday, as the results came in from local elections, Simon Fletcher argued that Starmer’s right-ward pivot is laying the ground for Nigel Farage, and Adam Bienkov questioned whether Labour may befall the same dire fate as the Conservatives.More from the Byline Times News Site:More from Byline Supplement:Share Byline SupplementThis Substack is reader-supported.…

REVEALED: Three top Tories put on Reform ‘defection watch’ as pollster tips one Conservative to take on Nigel Farage

REVEALED: Three top Tories put on Reform ‘defection watch’ as pollster tips one Conservative to take on Nigel Farage - Tory insiders have been left reeling from Reform UK's turquoise tidal wave after putting at least three Conservative MPs on defection watch

In the United Kingdom, Reform UK's nationalist and anti-immigration party won major victories last week in local elections confirming the progress of the far right and the growing fragmentation of the British political landscape. In Durham County, northeast of England, Reform UK's far right-wing party won with 65 seats out of 98 of the Labour-dominated council for nearly a century. After this victory, the leader of the Nigel Farage party said, a…

Nigel Farage already has a long history behind his back of electoral surprises that anticipate a political earthquake that then never occurs. In the 2019 European elections, the then Brexit Party won 31% of the votes and the first position. Laborists and conservatives remained third and fifth, respectively. In the generals of July last year, his new party, Reform UK, entered the House of Commons for the first time with four deputies. He had obta…

PM Starmer Faces Growing Discontent Inside His Own Labour Party as British Establishment Tries To Cope With Reform UK’s Historic Victories in the Local Elections

Starmer has problems inside his own party, and the voters turned their backs on him. After upsurging populists from Reform UK humiliated and stunned both the Labour and Conservative parties with their historic victories in the local elections, many are looking for ways forward. Among the Labour party MPs and power brokers, there is ample dissatisfaction, both from a more centrist wing as well as those even more leftist than failing Prime Ministe…

The Eurosceptic party of Nigel Farage won last week in several by-elections.