Reform UK wins first seat in 2024 UK election

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage speaks during a BBC Question Time Leaders' Special at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, Britain, June 28, 2024. Pic credit: Reuters

LONDON (Reuters): Reform UK, the right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, looks set to emerge as a new force in British politics, winning its first seat in an election and squeezing the Conservative vote in the early results declared.

Farage, a driving force behind Britain's decision to leave the European Union, only entered the election race last month, a move that caused shockwaves in a Conservative Party that was already far adrift of centre-left Labour.