The result will heighten fears within Labour that it could lose scores of MPs to Nigel Farage’s party at the next general election
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has dramatically won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes in a blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.
The hard-right party narrowly overturned Labour’s 14,700-vote majority in the first full-scale electoral test of Starmer’s government.
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