Less than five years after emerging from the ashes of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, Reform UK is a political force in the ascendence. The right-wing populist party dominated loca

The Labour and Conservative parties are reeling from Nigel Farage’s election success. James Heale is the deputy political editor of the Spectator magazine in London.

Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK won a fifth parliamentary seat, its first post as mayor and many positions on local councils in early election results on Friday which underscored the threat it poses to Britain’s main two political parties.