UK Voters Turn Away From Starmer in Local Election
Early results in the local elections showed Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK racking up sweeping gains over Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour.
The results reaffirm a splintering of British politics that’s seen the insurgent Reform and Green parties make up ground on the right and left.
Bloomberg’s Alex Morgan reports from London.
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