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UK Election Analysis: Labour’s Landslide Victory & Reform’s Right-Wing Surge Redraws The Political Map
Labour has won a major victory and the Tories have been crushed. Beneath the surface, the picture is muddied.
A bruising cost-of-living crisis, pandemic and Brexit (devoid of tangible improvements to the country), the behavior of Boris Johnson, the missteps of Liz Truss, an inability to curb illegal migration, and multiple gaffes by latest Conservative leader Rishi Sunak have all played into their downfall. Instead, the Conservatives haemorrhaged vote share to the Liberal Democrats and the newly formed Reform UK, led by Trump ally, Brexit architect and anti-immigrant rabble-rouser Nigel Farage. The rise of Reform also raises the possibility of future right-wing axis of power between the likes of Trump, Farage and France’s surging National Rally party led by Marine Le Pen.
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