Reform UK snatches Runcorn and Helsby in knife-edge by-election
Reform UK secured victory in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, overturning a large Labour majority. The party also won the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty and made local council gains.
The fight for the ‘supermajority’: why Alba lost out in the Holyrood elections
Megan Kenyon | 19th May 2021 | Uncategorised
The party’s dream of a majority for independence may have come true, but not in the way they had hoped, writes Megan Kenyon
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