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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T20:58:32.000Z",
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    "Membership",
    "Keir Starmer's promise to protect national treasure on brink of 'extinction' slammed by Labour MPs",
    "Migration minister will NOT be sacked as both he and Shabana Mahmood receive scolding from PM",
    "EU threatens British farmers with immediate ban under Labour's Brexit 'deal'",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nNigel Farage Reform UK made major gains across Britain last night in a special bumper night of by-elections taking place up and down the country.\n\nThe populist party emerged victorious across seven by-elections in a bumper night of 21 contests from the northern Highlands to the south west coast.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMr Farage's party won seats in St Helens and Tamworth, picking up seats in Cambridgeshire, Rhyl South, Nuneaton and Staffordshire.\n\nBoth Labour and the Greens were able to make gains off each other in London while the Tories took a seat in Hertsmere, seeing off competition from the Liberal Democrats.\n\nGB News has broken down the results from a colossal night in local politics.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**_**_George St / Harbour (Aberdeen)_** - SNP GAIN FROM LIBERAL DEMOCRATS_**\n\n  * ****Leon Marwick (SNP) - 583\n  * Edward Obi (Scottish Labour) - 255\n  * Charlotte Horne (Scottish Greens) - 232\n  * Jordan Brown (Reform UK) - 177\n  * Luke Eveling (Liberal Democrats) - 162\n  * Aamir Azeem (Independent) - 162\n  * Marco Oosthusizen (Scottish Conservatives) - 146\n  * Fred Bayer (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) - 31\n  * Konrad Rekas - Alliance to Liberal Scotland - 13\n\n\n\n** _Goldsmid (Brighton & Hove)_****_- GREEN GAIN FROM LABOUR_**\n\n  * Nadia Barton Ahmad (Green Party)– 2,037\n  * Philip Berman (Labour) - 1,357\n  * Luke Willmoth (Reform UK) - 304\n  * Kim Marie Leyland-Walker (Liberal Democrats) - 214\n  * Louis Bird (Conservatives) - 210\n  * Glenn Kelly, (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) 31\n\n\n\n _**Roman Bank & Peckover (Cambridgeshire)**__**- REFORM HOLD**_\n\n  * Chris Tirrell (Reform UK) - 1,009\n  * Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative) - 983\n  * Diane Priscilla Cutler (Liberal Democrats) - 414\n  * Benedict Charles Lewis Allen (Labour) 105\n  * Jonathon Raymond Mark Lilley (Green) - 76\n\n\n\n _**Llangennech (Carmarthenshire) - PLAID CYMRU GAIN FROM REFORM**_\n\n  * Iwan Griffiths (Plaid Cymru) - 483\n  * Jordan Andre Sargent (Welsh Labour) - 338\n  * Gavin Paul Rashbrook (Reform UK) - 283\n  * Craig Griffiths (Welsh Conservatives) - 38\n  * Sean Maliphant Hogan (Independent) - 11\n  * Michael Hugh Willis (Green Party) - 8\n  * Justin Mark Griffiths (Welsh Liberal Democrats) - 7\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n** _Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch (Denbighshire) - INDEPENDENT GAIN FROM PLAID _**CYMRU**__**\n\n  * Ian Evans (Independent) - 283\n  * Hefin Edwards (Plaid Cymru) - 242\n  * Nigel Deed (Reform UK) - 47\n  * Cai Williams (Independent) - 24\n  * Beryl Wynne (Conservatives) - 17\n\n\n\n** _Rhyl South (Denbighshire) - REFORM GAIN FROM LABOUR_**\n\n  * Tony Thomas (Reform UK) - 348\n  * Josh Hodge (Plaid Cymru) - 267\n  * Robert Ashley Stark (Independent) - 79\n  * Keith Kirwan (Welsh Liberal Democrats) 41\n\n\n\n** _North Acton (Ealing) - GREEN GAIN FROM LABOUR_**\n\n  * Marijn van de Geer (Green) - 804\n  * Gareth James Shaw (Labour) - 642\n  * Abdi Ahmed (Liberal Democrats) - 523\n  * Jonathan Notley (Reform UK) - 309\n  * Sally Gorman (Conservatives) - 257\n  * Craig Smith (Ealing Community Independents) - 129\n\n\n\n** _Dalston (Hackney) - GREEN HOLD_**\n\n  * Manal Massalha (Green) - 549\n  * Grace Adebayo (Labour) - 342\n  * Ivon Fleming (Reform UK)- 26\n  * Peter Munrow (Liberal Democrat) - 24\n  * Jerry Sulaiman (Conservative) 10\n\n\n\n** _Hackney Central (Hackney) - GREEN HOLD_**\n\n  * Noah Kirksted-Breen (Green) - 676\n  * Sheila Suso-Runge (Labour) - 624\n  * Ken Gabbott-Rolph (Liberal Democrat) - 83\n  * Vahid Almasi (Reform UK) - 59\n  * Serhan Bay (Conservative) - 49\n\n\n\n### POLITICS LATEST:\n\n\n\n\n  * Keir Starmer's promise to protect national treasure on brink of 'extinction' slammed by Labour MPs\n  * Migration minister will NOT be sacked as both he and Shabana Mahmood receive scolding from PM\n  * EU threatens British farmers with immediate ban under Labour's Brexit 'deal'\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**_Farnworth (Halton) - LABOUR HOLD_**\n\n  * Christopher Charlton-Kingsley (Reform UK) - 596\n  * Dan Clarke - (Libertarian Party) - 3\n  * Phil Harper - (Conservatives) - 126\n  * Louise Elizabeth Nolan (Labour) - 835\n  * Kiel Joseph Oldfield (Greens) - 77\n\n\n\n** _Northumberland Park (Haringey) - LABOUR GAIN FROM GREENS_**\n\n  * Kenny Ajao (Conservatives) - 98\n  * Rose Dakuo (Greens) - 839\n  * Ajda Ovat (Labour) - 877\n  * David Schmitz (Liberal Democrats) - 60\n  * Ian Sinclair (Reform UK) - 106\n\n\n\n** _Woodside (Haringey)_****_- GREENS GAIN FROM LABOUR_**\n\n  * Mikeleno Fereraj (Conservatives) - 110\n  * Thayahlan Iyngkaran (Labour) - 978\n  * Ruth Price (Reform UK) - 171\n  * Rakeebah Ukrahim (Liberal Democrats) - 93\n  * Elara Shurety (Greens) - 1,033\n\n\n\n** _Bushey Park (Hertsmere)_****_- CONSERVATIVE GAIN FROM LIBERAL DEMOCRATS_**\n\n  * Katie Elman (Reform UK) - 422\n  * Annabel Irene Hennessy (Liberal Democrats) - 726\n  * John Humphries (Greens) - 61\n  * Robin Andrew Short (Labour) - 50\n  * Linda Silver (Conservatives) - 947\n\n\n\n** _East Sutherland & Edderton (Highland)_****_- INDEPENDENT GAIN FROM INDEPENDENT_**\n\n  * Jay Avrey (Reform UK) - 188\n  * Eric De Venny (Scottish Liberal Democrats) - 854\n  * Rebecca Machin (SNP) - 452\n  * John Murray (Independent) - 1,044\n  * Eva Short (Scottish Conservatives) - 59\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n** _Dowlais & Pant (Merthyr Tydfil) - LABOUR GAIN FROM INDEPENDENT_**\n\n  * Dean Barrett (Labour) - 356\n  * James Cushen (Plaid Cymru) - 125\n  * Janeen Davies (Greens) - 20\n  * Terry Donegan (Reform UK) - 160\n  * Nick Meaney (Independent) - 215\n  * Roxanne Richardson (Conservatives) - 11\n\n\n\n** _Camp Hill (Nuneaton & Bedworth) - REFORM GAIN FROM LABOUR_**\n\n  * Eric Amaechi (Labour) - 400\n  * Peter James Gilbert (Reform UK) - 460\n  * Hari Khela (Conservatives) - 84\n\n\n\n** _Treorchy (Rhondda Cynon Taf) - PLAID CYMRU HOLD_**\n\n  * Daniel Buck (Greens) - 23\n  * Richard Clarke (Plaid Cymru) - 1,147\n  * Craig Ford (Reform UK) - 260\n  * David Morris (Labour) - 164\n  * Cerys Walker (Conservatives) - 27\n\n\n\n** _Haydock (St Helens) - REFORM HOLD_**\n\n  * Andrea Marie Blake (Independents) - 36\n  * Tony Devanny (Reform UK) - 717\n  * Owen Farnworth (Labour) - 598\n  * Paul Robert Hooton (Independent) - 631\n  * Amber Carole Johnson (Greens) - 154\n  * Melanie Ann Marie Lee (Conservatives) - 39\n\n\n\n** _Stretton (Staffordshire) - REFORM HOLD_**\n\n  * Shelagh McKiernan (Labour) - 448\n  * Jack Andrew Mellor (Greens) - 213\n  * Bernard Godfrey Peters (Conservatives) - 871\n  * Jonathan Pyke (Reform UK) - 902\n\n\n\n** _Dawlish South West (Teignbridge) - LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLD_**\n\n  * Joe Dagger (Conservatives) - 154\n  * Pat Hackett (Liberal Democrats) - 692\n  * Sue Whiteing (Reform UK) - 451\n  * Scott Adrian Williams (Greens) - 230\n\n\n\n** _Stort Valley (Uttlesford) - CONSERVATIVE GAIN_**\n\n  * Paul Bamlett (Liberal Democrats) - 175\n  * George Francis Peter Braeckman (Conservatives) - 225\n  * Philip John Hoy (Reform UK) - 119\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Nigel Farage's Reform makes major gains across Britain in bumper night of by-elections"
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