Dear Jack,
In the early hours of this morning, it felt almost hard to believe that a year ago there was no such party as Reform UK.
As ballot after ballot was counted in Old Bexley and Sidcup, many reflecting a level of support we haven’t seen before, one thing became very apparent—Reform UK is now the only credible alternative to the main two Westminster parties. British politics is becoming a three-horse race.
Now anybody who knows anything about Westminster by-elections will tell you that they are a tough environment within which to make a breakthrough. Yet, we managed to come third out of eleven candidates. Our vote share was nearly the same as the Green Party (who came 4th) and the Lib Dems (who came 5th) combined. These are parties who have been campaigning on the streets for years, and yet in our first attempt we leapfrogged them both, being one of only three parties to retain their deposit.
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