Reform wins Runcorn byelection by just six votes in blow to Labour

Result will heighten government's fears it could lose scores of MPs to Nigel Farage's party at next general election

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Nigel Farage's Reform UK has dramatically won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes in a blow to Keir Starmer's premiership.

The hard-right party narrowly overturned Labour's 14,700-vote majority in the first full-scale electoral test of Starmer's government and set a new record for the smallest majority at a parliamentary by-election since the end of the second world war.