If you spent the last fortnight listening to Reform UK, you could have been forgiven for thinking Makerfield was already in the bag. The win was supposed to be inevitable. One of those places where history had stopped, Labour had collapsed and Nigel Farage’s troops merely had to turn up to collect the keys. Momentum

Was Rob Kenyon really the best that Reform could come up with in a political battle that attracted widespread national interest?

Andy Burnham’s positive vision has struck a powerful blow to Reform – but the PM risks diminishing the impact by clinging on in No 10, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign…