Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party snatched a critical parliamentary seat from the governing Labour Party.

Britain’s populist, anti-immigration party Reform UK has beaten Labour by a tiny margin in a by-election, dealing the government a mid-term setback and ruffling the country’s historically resilient two-party hegemony.

The Labour and Conservative parties are digesting the results of England's local and Mayoral elections after Reform UK made major gains at their expense. With counting complete, Nigel Farage's party took control of 10 local councils,