The local election results will be \u201cabsolute annihilation\u201d for Labour, Reform\u2019s home affairs spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n
Zia Yusuf said: \u201cThese are the most important elections in this country\u2019s history, and I think this is going to be a historic set of results and an extraordinary set of results for Reform.<\/p>\n
\u201cReform swept the board in the local elections last May. This time around, I think we\u2019re going to do extremely well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the other really important thing about this is that we are used to in our lifetimes Labour or the Conservative Party winning majorities in general elections with north of 40% of the vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think now, they are going to struggle to get 40% between them, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019re coming back. I think the Greens are going to eat a lot into Labour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Reform are going to eat a lot into Labour.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep an eye on those Labour heartlands, you know, in the Red Wall. Those areas, I think, are going to move decisively turquoise. I think there\u2019s going to be a turquoise wave throughout that area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local election results will be \u201cabsolute annihilation\u201d for Labour, Reform\u2019s home affairs spokesperson has said. Zia Yusuf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,527,393,4884,14144,807,1198,528,34335,10751,262516,12,384,1144,386,712,16,15,1764,170547],"class_list":{"0":"post-945315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-conservative-party","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-green-party","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-kemi-badenoch","15":"tag-labour-party","16":"tag-local-election-results","17":"tag-local-elections","18":"tag-local-elections-2026","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-reform-uk","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-wales","27":"tag-zack-polanski"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537131413487166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}