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Labour and Conservatives face a challenging electoral test

Letters: Readers respond to the upcoming local elections in England and the possibility of disillusioned voters abandoning the main parties

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Nigel Farage is on the brink of another election breakthrough… but at what cost?

COMMENT: With voters set to desert Labour and Tories at the local elections in favour of Reform UK, will the populist protest party be able to run services and balance the books of hard-pressed city councils? Of course not, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

Thursday’s elections will be ‘tough’, PM admits as campaigning enters final week

The upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election will run alongside local elections and it is expected to be a tight contest between Labour and Reform UK.

Evening Standard

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Reform urged to reveal funding sources after chasing super-wealthy donors

REFORM UK have been urged to reveal who funds them and to rule out donors with links to Russia – after the party bragged it was targeting wealthy…

The National (Scotland)

Polling guru says Reform has ‘already won’ next week’s elections

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The Independent UK

Populists like Farage promise voters a simpler life. In fact, they produce ever more hassle and chaos

Centrists won’t beat Reform UK by echoing its messages. They should emphasise the true unworkability of policies like Brexit, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK challenged to give details on donations after £2m mailshot campaign

Exclusive: Liberal Democrats say voters need to know sources of funding for Nigel Farage’s party before local elections

The Guardian - UK

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Political parties enter final campaign push ahead of local elections

Voters will go to the polls in 23 council areas across England on Thursday May 1, and will choose a new MP in Runcorn and Helsby.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch fails to rule out local coalitions with Reform

Mrs Badenoch also insisted she would not go into coalition with Nigel Farage or Reform at national level.

The National (Scotland)

‘Tories are not listening’: Ed Davey sure Lib Dems can woo more disgruntled voters

Leader hopes local elections in many traditionally Conservative areas will help party build on recent success

The Guardian - UK

Voters deserting Labour and Tories as Reform to claim hundreds of seats at local elections, top pollster says

Exclusive: Professor Sir John Curtice says the big winner of the local elections is already Nigel Farage, whose party he claims has ‘murdered the Tories’

The Independent UK

Badenoch ‘not worried’ donor announcing £1m for Reform could be first of many

It has been reported that Bassim Haidar has announced he is giving £1 million to Reform.

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch says Lib Dems are people who fix church roofs. Yes: that’s why we’re popular and she isn‘t

It may baffle our rivals, but we are proud to be local representatives who care about their communities, says Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says

Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

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The National (Scotland)

'It will backfire': Will Reform UK benefit from John Swinney's anti-far-right summit?

John Swinney’s decision to host an anti-far-right summit in a bid to stand up to the growing influence of Reform UK may have come “too late”…

The Independent UK

Labour crisis as the city of John Prescott turns its back on Starmer

Canvass returns seen by The Independent suggest that Labour could be a distant third to Reform and the Lib Dems in their former heartland of Hull and East Yorkshire

The Independent UK

Key seats to watch in the 2025 local elections

NEWS ANALYSIS: Will a string of controversial policies be Labour’s downfall at the ballot box? And will Reform surge ahead leaving the Tories in their wake as pollsters predict? Kate Devlin looks at where the votes will count the most on 1 May

The Independent UK

Why these are the most important local elections since Boris Johnson won London in 2008

NEWS ANALYSIS: Polls have put Reform UK ahead for months now but these local elections will be the first test of whether the traditional two-party Labour-Tory grip on British politics is under threat, writes David Maddox

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Nigel Farage Demands Minister for Deportations as Channel Crossings Hit Record High

The Guardian - UK

In Kent, the ‘silent Reform voter’ may give Nigel Farage his greatest victory

On the campaign trail in Ramsgate, the Reform leader was keen to talk immigration and his distrust of the Tories

The Guardian - UK

For political parties judging this year’s local election results it’s all about the baseline

The polls will be first electoral test for Labour government, while Reform is standing candidates in almost every contest

Evening Standard

Challenge to Reform UK Lincolnshire mayor candidate is rejected

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

The Independent UK

Reform’s Andrea Jenkyns cleared to run for Lincolnshire mayor just days before election

Dame Andrea said the move to prevent her from standing was a ‘political hit job aimed at smearing my candidacy’

The Guardian - UK

Tories urged not to ‘panic’ into uniting with Reform or removing Badenoch

Former ministers warn that leader must not be ‘pushed off course’ as Conservatives expect disastrous local elections

The National (Scotland)

What we can learn from the SNP's massive Fife by-election win

STRINGING the words "Glenrothes" and "by-election" together is still enough to bring SNP members out in a cold sweat, after…

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