{"id":474708,"date":"2026-05-08T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:48:08","slug":"watch-truly-historic-shift-in-uk-politics-says-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474708\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8216;Truly historic shift in UK politics,&#8217; says Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has said local election results are a &#8220;historic shift in British politics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by reporters whether the success was a result of a protest vote against the Labour government, he said: &#8220;It cannot continue to be a fluke or a protest vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can honestly say you are witnessing an historic shift in British politics. This (Reform UK) is now the most national of all parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/uk\/2026\/0508\/1572282-uk-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reform UK made gains across the country as hundreds of Labour councillors were voted out, heaping pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage added Labour and the Conservatives were being &#8220;wiped out&#8221; in their traditional heartlands and said Reform would bring a mix of new ideas and experience.<\/p>\n<p>Standing outside Havering Town Hall in East London, he added: &#8220;We all know that finances of local councils all over the country are severely stretched. We are not promising miracles but we are promising good value for money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage added the Conservative Party will &#8220;cease to be a national party&#8221; following the local election results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what you&#8217;re going to see by the end of today is that, whilst the Conservative party have the odd pocket of strength, predominantly in very affluent areas, they will cease to be a national political party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are competitive, right down from the southwest of England, up to the northeast of Scotland, and I would honestly say now, that we are the only true natural party that are competitive everywhere,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has said local election results are a &#8220;historic shift in British politics&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-474708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topstories","20":"tag-world","21":"tag-world-news","22":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116538802773485108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}