Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reform UK has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes - an extremely narrow victory that will serve as a major ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s first nine months in office have been far from easy. From the backlash against cuts to benefits, to mounting global instability and an impending trade war with the US, the prime ...

Since there’s rather a lot else going on right now, one could hardly stretch to calling Mike Amesbury’s thumping of a constituent “the punch heard around the world”. But it certainly echoed around his ...

Labour's candidate in a key by-election battle has warned voters Nigel Farage's Reform UK is not "on their side at all". Ms Shore admits it is a race between the two parties and refers to Mr Farage’s ...

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