Nigel Farage has declared Reform UK the “main opposition party” after winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by six votes. Farage said Reform had “dug very deep into the Labour vote” as the party overturned a 14,700 Labour majority. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00This is a safe Labour seat. We've won tonight, albeit narrowly, we've won tonight with Labour
00:05votes and the same is happening in Doncaster tonight, the same is happening up in Newcastle
00:10tonight, the same will happen when the results come in in County Durham tomorrow. It's been a
00:15big night for us. We've dug very deep into the Labour vote and in other parts of England we've
00:21dug deep into the Conservative vote and we are now, after tonight, there's no question, in most of
00:26the country, we are now the main opposition party to this government.