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Green Party voters remain deeply troubled by the rise of Reform UK and their anti-immigration platform. Just days before the elections
party in English local government? It has been an election buildup dominated by the rise of Reform UK and the Greens
election is anyone's guess. Polls suggest Birmingham's electorate has fully embraced five-party politics, with a healthy number of independent candidates giving city voters a sixth option. Reform UK is feeling confident
Reform UK, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats – votes are increasingly spread out. Under FPTP, which can produce outsized swings, candidates can win on relatively small shares of the vote, as support for their
Reform UK and the Green Party candidates. The results will determine who runs vital public services such as schools, social care, rubbish collection, transport. But they could also indicate how voters feel about the performance
Greens and to a lesser extent Reform. In a speech to the Institute for Government in January she said: "Support for independence tends to rise when politics feels stuck or uncertain, and it falls when
Greens on 19, albeit both parties a long way off the 51 needed for a majority. [Labour lost more than 1,400 councillors across the local elections in England](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2026/may/07/local-elections-2026-may-full-results-england-scotland-wales) on Thursday
Reform UK and the Greens. Lord Wood, former adviser to Gordon Brown, says: "Both main parties have had problems in government due to internal problems. The Conservative Party's travails in government were largely
Green Anthony Slaughter said his party had revealed some costings while Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds said she would not as her plans were about "ambition". Meanwhile four party leaders on the left ruled out working
Reform” before being escorted out of the room. Two other audience members shouted “refugees welcome” as he was removed by security. The protesters were part of Green New Deal Rising (GND Rising), a UK youth
elections in Wales and Scotland. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK won hundreds of seats and control of more councils in England, Labour went backwards in Scotland as the [SNP claimed a historic fifth victory
rise of Reform UK and the Greens. As for Reform UK, party leader Farage has been revelling in his lifelong political role as disruptor-in-chief, while fending off questions about the huge £5m gift
rising minimum wage and more public and community ownership "across the board". She also backed Andy Burnham to return to Westminster, adding the party had been wrong to block him from standing
rise of the Greens in inner London – more even than the prospect of Reform UK taking seats in Havering and Bexley – has shot a shiver of alarm through the Labour party. The capital
Party's leader, Zack Polanski. The last time there were local elections in Hackney, Labour won 50 of the borough's 57 seats, and the Greens just two. But now the Greens are hoping
elections will determine the composition of some 5,000 local council seats, a number of mayoral positions across England, as well as seats in the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments. Polls opened
election. It was only narrowly ahead of the Scottish National party, which spent £75,000, and the Greens, who spent £74,000 over the period. 
Green Party, while nationalist parties are expected to win elections in the Scottish and Welsh parliaments. Farage said the results so far were “way exceeding” his expectations for Reform and represented a “historic change
Reform UK and the Green Party made huge gains last week. "Sir Keir's speech standing outside Downing Street after a victory in the last general election feels like light-years ago. He had promised
UK and the Greens, and was kicked out of power in Wales. Labour came joint second in Scotland, where the SNP retained control of the Parliament. West, a former junior minister, is not bidding