The UK is under threat from the far right

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he results of the local elections held on Thursday, May 7, in the United Kingdom, which focused on municipal and regional issues, cannot be examined through national lens only. Yet, the dramatic shifts they expose highlight the historic transformations underway in Europe's oldest democracy, against the backdrop of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's deep unpopularity.

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Reform UK records historic breakthrough in local elections that mark Labour's collapse and the end of two-party politics

Reform UK, Nigel Farage's far-right party, made dramatic inroads into local councils, especially in Labour's traditional heartlands across England's impoverished North and Midlands. The simultaneous weakening of the Conservatives, benefiting Reform UK and the pro-European Liberal Democrats, marks another significant electoral trend that confirms the radical evolution of the political landscape.