LONDON: Nigel Farage’s populist, right-wing Reform UK party won a parliamentary seat in northwest England on Friday by the smallest ever margin in a parliamentary by-election in the country’s history.
Reform’s Sarah Pochin beat Labour’s candidate by just six votes.
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Runcorn and Helsby had previously been a safe Labour seat with the party winning more than half the area’s votes in last year’s national election.
