Nigel Farage's Reform UK wins Runcorn by-election

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage hailed “a big moment” for Reform UK as his party claimed a bombshell by-election victory over Labour in Runcorn and Helsby.The result was declared at 6am on Friday and followed a recount after only four votes separated the two parties.

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00:00If you live in a street and 10 or 15 young men from completely different cultures move

00:06into one of those houses and you're getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go and work

00:11on a building site or whatever it is, would you be happy about that? I tell you what,

00:15people aren't.

00:19Why should I pay my taxes for people who are legally coming to Britain, get free health

00:25care, immediate GP appointments, free dental appointments, spending money and full bed

00:30and breakfast paid for. There is a sense here that something wrong and unfair is going on.

00:36And do you not think you are just trying to create divisions within a community here?

00:41No, the divisions are being created by weak British governments allowing people willy-nilly

00:46from all over the world, undocumented young males of fighting age to come into Britain

00:51in unprecedented numbers.

00:53And your MP talked about change upon the stage, she is a former Conservative councillor.

01:00That is not necessarily a sin.

01:02No, but does it mean that we are seeing change here or are we seeing Conservatives under a

01:06different nation?

01:07No, look, you know, this is a safe Labour seat. We have won tonight, albeit narrowly,

01:11we have won tonight with Labour votes. And the same is happening in Doncaster tonight,

01:17the same is happening up in Newcastle tonight, the same will happen when the results come in

01:21in County Durham tomorrow. It has been a big night for us. We have dug very deep into the

01:26Labour vote and in other parts of England we have dug deep into the Conservative vote.

01:30And we are now, after tonight, there is no question, in most of the country we are now

01:35the main opposition party to this government. Thank you.

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