Hard-right upstarts eye big gains in local UK polls

Nigel Farage's hard-right upstarts are pushing to pick up scores of council and mayoral seats, as well as a parliamentary one, that they hope will help them organise a serious challenge at the next general election, likely in 2029. Their rise comes as polls show Britons are increasingly disenchanted with the country's two establishment parties: the traditionally centre-left Labour and the Conservatives on the right. At a UK parliamentary by-election on Thursday in Runcorn, an industrial town in northwest England...