May 8,
2026, 3:57 a.m. ET9 minutes ago
Stephen
Castle
Reporting
from London
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/08/world/uk-local-elections-results
Speaking
in Havering, a borough in outer London, Nigel Farage said that the town hall
was “under new management” after Reform U.K. gained control there of its first
London council, at the expense of the Conservatives. “Overall what’s happened
is a truly historic shift in British politics,” Farage told reporters. “What
Reform are able to do is to win in areas that have always been Conservative,
but equally we are proving in a big way we can win in areas that Labour have
dominated, frankly, since the end of World War I.”
14m ago
08.53 BST
Farage says results mark 'historic shift' because
Reform UK winning in Tory and Labour areas
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has been
speaking in Havering.
He said he was delighted to be outside Havering
town hall, “which is under new management”.
He said Labour were being “wiped out by Reform in
many of their traditional areas”.
And later today we would see the Tories wiped out
in some of their heartlands, he said.
He went on:
I think overall what has happened is a truly
historic shift in British politics.
We’ve been so used to thinking about politics in
terms of left and right, and yet what Reform are able to do is to win in areas
that have always been Conservative. But equally, we’re proving in a big way we
can win in areas that Labour have dominated, frankly, since the end of World
War one.
At the moment, we’re winning one in three of all
the seats that are up.
But I genuinely think the best is yet to come.
I’m very excited about the north-east results, the Yorkshire results, some more
to come in the West Midlands. [In] Essex we’re feeling supremely confident and
that’s significant given that half of the shadow cabinet have seats in Essex.
So it’s a big, big day.
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