Helen Godwin has held the West of England Combined Authority mayor role for Labour but it was a close race with Reform UK.

Britain’s two main parties suffered significant losses in municipal and mayoral votes as Reform U.K., a right-wing populist party, surged ahead.

Six votes is not much of a majority, but it was enough for Mr Farage’s Reform UK to beat Labour in a by-election for Runcorn and Helsby, a seat just outside Liverpool. What was once one of the safest Labour seats in the country fell to Mr Farage’s party,