LONDON (Reuters) – Nigel Farage’s populist, right-wing Reform UK party won a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday by the smallest ever margin in a parliamentary by-election in the country’s history. Reform’s Sarah Pochin beat Labour’s candidate by just six votes. Runcorn and Helsby had previously been a safe Labour seat with the party […]
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party narrowly wins Runcorn parliamentary seat
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LONDON (Reuters) – Nigel Farage’s populist, right-wing Reform UK party won a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday by the smallest ever margin in a parliamentary by-election in the country’s history.
Reform’s Sarah Pochin beat Labour’s candidate by just six votes. Runcorn and Helsby had previously been a safe Labour seat with the party winning more than half the area’s votes in last year’s national election.
(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)