UK Braces for Historic Political Upheaval as Reform Party Surges Ahead of Local Elections

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UK faces biggest political shake-up in 100 years as local elections loom, says Curtice

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Britain could be facing its biggest political shake-up in 100 years, one of the country’s top electoral experts said on Sunday, as Conservative arguments over possible pacts with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK raged in public.

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