UK hard right sets sights high after local election triumphs

Reform UK, which formed from the remnants of its firebrand leader Nigel Farage's Brexit party, swept over 670 local council seats as well as its first two mayoral posts. In its biggest win of Thursday's poll, the anti-immigration party also narrowly took a parliamentary seat in a by-election in Runcorn, northwest England, from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's centre-left Labour. "We can and we will win the next general election" which is expected in around four years, Farage declared on Friday to...