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opinionPeter McIlvenna
What Last Week’s UK Elections Can Teach the US
On May 7, 2026, English voters made a dramatic shift. The upstart right-wing party Reform UK won 1,454 council seats and took full control of 14 local authorities. These victories weren’t in quiet, out-of-the-way places. They happened in areas long considered Labour strongholds. England has 317 main councils, with about 16,000 elected councillors from around…

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