Reform UK were the big winners of last week’s local elections, taking control of 14 councils in England, including ten that Labour previously led.
They were Havering, Barnsley, Calderdale, Gateshead, Sandwell, South Tyneside, St Helens, Sunderland, Wakefield and Thurrock.
Immigration policy was once again at the heart of Reform’s campaign, with leader Nigel Farage announcing a week before polls opened that his party planned to deport 288,000 “illegal migrants” a year.
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Farage also claimed Reform-run councils could stop housing thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in Britain under government resettlement schemes.
