RefUK only seems to have success on a national scale where everything is focused on Farage. During those big national elections, it's possible for crappy candidates to get elected by riding on his coattails. But in smaller elections where candidates have a spotlight on them, they fail.
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For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result.
How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project
For the third time in a row Reform have sought to stoke division and violence on Britain's streets and been roundly rejected by voters as a result, reports Adam Bienkov