The most serious fears of British prime minister, Labor Keir Starmer, have come true at dawn this Friday. , he has defeated in the partial election of the constituency of Runrorn & Helsby and thus obtains his fifth deputy in the House of Commons. It has been a long night, with double counting, in which the training candidate, Sara Pochin, has imposed on her labor rival for just six votes of difference. To understand the magnitude of this Starmer’s defeat, however, we must remember that just 10 months ago the Labor won that seat and folded in number of votes to reform uk.
be sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for knocking down a citizen in the street. Since then, Farage’s party has made an intense campaign in a region of northwest England in Declive, where the traditional vote of the working class was no longer guaranteed for the Labor Party.
The arrival of irregular immigrants to a Hotel in Runcorn, where the government housed them, as well as the cuts carried out by the Labor in social aid, and that only reluctantly voted for Starmer last year. On this occasion, they have turned their backs.
“The result of this choice tells us the great story of the night, and the big question that we must all ask ourselves is:” Is reforming a huge challenge to the traditional predominance of conservatives and labor in the United Kingdom politics? I think we all know that the answer is that yes, ”said the sociologist and electoral analyst John Curtice, one of the most prestigious and heard voices on the BBC every electoral night.
“We have made history tonight, and I want to thank all the brave citizens of Runcorn & Helsby who have put my name on the ballot,” said the winning candidate, Sarah Pochin, who has defined Farage as a “great leader” who “has always been there to defend her country.”
“I think we have managed to supplant the conservative party as the main force of opposition to the government,” Farage has proclaimed. “The message we have received in places where we never won was always the same: voting for conservatives was like voting for the Labor,”
Councilors and mayors
Throughout Thursday, local elections were held in approximately one third of England (neither in Wales, nor in Scotland or Northern Ireland there was a vote). More than 1,600 local representatives, six mayors and. Almost 1,000 of the places at stake corresponded to the conservative party. The current positions were chosen in 2021, when the toriesunder the leadership of Boris Johnson, they enjoyed a wave of popularity thanks to a successful vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. The Labor left had just defended the permanence of 300 councilors.
The count, prolonged during the early hours of Friday and that will run until early in the afternoon, has been drawing a triumph panorama for reform UK, and a defeat without palliative for the two major and traditional games.
For the first time in its history, the populist right of Farage, a product driven by the Brexit wings, has been made with an mayor’s office, that of Greater Lincolnshire. His candidate, Andre Jenkyns, has proclaimed himself winner. “Inch to the inch, Reform UK will return its glorious past to the United Kingdom, and Nigel Farage will be a day prime minister,” Jenkyns announced in his speech to accept the results.
Starmer’s Labor Party has managed to retain three of its mayorships (North Tyneside, West of England and Doncaster), but they have been bittersweet victories, because Reform UK has stepped on its heels in all three contests.
If something is inevitable on an electoral night, each of the matches in Liza builds the story of the results that suits or not to be of reality. The conservative party, quantitatively the great defeated of these municipal elections, has focused on pointing out the weakness of Starmer, which “is on its way to becoming a single mandate prime minister.”
“These results are a hard verdict against Starmer, which has made the Labor Party lose a seat that was practically assured,” said a spokesman for the conservative opposition. “Just ten months ago he achieved a vast majority throughout the country, including this constituency [Runcorn & Helsby]where his party got 52% of the votes. His policies, however, have been a punch in the face of Runrorn’s voters, ”he added, in a clear indirect reference to the episode of the former deputy Amesbury and his beating, visibly drunk, to a citizen.
The Labor Party has just been in power and. The unions are at war with a government that has cut the aid for gas and electricity to retirees and that has cut social aid to disabled and people with indefinite casualties due to illness; Labor voters from the most depressed areas look more and more to Farage’s populist right.
Waiting for a reaction from Starmer himself to this electoral debacle, the resurgence of reform UK suggests that the Labor Government will turn right to the right in matters such as immigration or in his response to issues such as trans movement. And the poisoned debate will open again, within the conservative party, around the idea of merging with Farage’s forces before being phagocyted by them.
