Labour needs a hard reset

Reform’s remarkable performance in the local elections confirmed that the volatility which has defined politics since the 2008 financial crisis endures.

For the first time in history, a party other than Labour and the Conservatives finished first , winning 31 per cent of the vote and 677 councillors.

Reform's rise is principally a crisis for the Tories .

The supposed natural party of government” now risks being supplanted as the UK ’s foremost right-wing opposition.