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Thursday’s elections marked a historic day in politics as Reform UK swept up lots of of council seats and received in a number of different native elections. After weeks of campaigning, Nigel Farage’s get together has taken management of 10 councils, received two mayoral races and added a fifth MP, Sarah Pochin. The get together chief hailed Reform because the “real opposition”, signifying “the end of two-party politics”.

Reform UK solely noticed its first MP a 12 months in the past, when the former-Tory chairman defected to Mr Farage’s get together. Lee Anderson grew to become Reform’s first official member of parliament, earlier than being re-elected to signify the Ashfield constituency on the 2024 General Election. Despite the get together quickly rising over the past 10 months, it additionally confronted an amazing quantity of criticism and doubt. However, Mr Anderson acknowledged that the native elections have proved the “silent majority see through the lies”.

Posting in regards to the gorgeous native election outcomes on the social media platform X, the Ashfield MP wrote: “Update.

“This is what occurs while you name us thick, racist, bigoted, Islamaphobic, harmful and need to promote of our NHS.”

In a blunt 10 word retort, he added: “The silent majority see through the lies and do this.”

Underneath the caption he posted a picture of Reform UK’s major victory, gaining a staggering 677 new councillors, 10 councils, two mayors and one MP. The majority of these came at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives – the latter lost nearly as many seats as Reform gained.

As the election results conclude, Reform UK end with 677 councillors, the Lib Dems on 370, an increase of 163, the Tories lost a whopping 674, leaving them with 319 councillors and Labour lost 187, placing them in fourth place with just 98 councillors.

Mr Farage claimed on Saturday: “In post-war Britain, nobody has ever overwhelmed each Labour and the Tories in a neighborhood election earlier than.”

The Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has since apologised to the now former-Tory councillors, promising to get her party back to a “credible” place.

“I’m deeply sorry to see so many succesful, hard-working Conservative councillors lose their seats. They did not deserve it – they usually weren’t the rationale we misplaced,” she wrote within the Telegraph.

However, one achieve from the elections for the official opposition get together was the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough mayoralty, which they took from Labour.