Reform UK wins by-election by just six votes to gain fifth MP

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Reform UK wins by-election by just six votes to gain fifth MP  Nigel Farage's right-wing populist party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform in Runcorn and Helsby, a constituency in northwest England.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/02/reform-uk-wins-by-election-by-just-six-votes-to-gain-fifth-mp  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party has won the UK's closest post-war

00:07by-election to gain its fifth seat in Parliament. They narrowly defeated Labour

00:14in the northwest constituency of Runcorn and Hellsby by just six votes. Reform

00:23campaigned on an anti-immigration platform and criticised the Labour

00:27government welfare cuts. Very clear message tonight. In much of this country, if you vote

00:34Conservative, you will get Labour. And what tonight does is it embeds us. We now are the

00:42opposition party in the United Kingdom to the Labour Party and the Tories, frankly, are

00:47a waste of space. After gaining about 14% of the vote in last year's national election,

00:55reform has spiked in popularity. National polls show it equaling or surpassing Labour far ahead

01:04of the Conservatives.

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