Wes Streeting admits that Reform UK might become Labour’s ‘main challengers’
Thursday’s local elections were bruising for both main parties, and a huge success for Reform UK, who won 677 seats. On Sky News this morning, Trevor Phillips asked Health Secretary Wes Streeting if Reform were taking votes away from Labour’s working class base. Streeting described Reform as a ‘real threat’, and suggested they might be the government’s main opposition by the next election. The health secretary called for Reform to receive more ‘airtime and scrutiny’, arguing that Farage’s healthcare policies are ‘a real threat to the NHS’, and added that Labour had to demonstrate ‘real improvement to people’s lives’ by the next election.
Kemi Badenoch: ‘Four years ago Keir Starmer had his worst result, he is prime minister now’
On the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg told Kemi Badenoch that these could be seen as the Conservatives’ worst local election results ever, and asked if Badenoch was being complacent by saying she needed more time.
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