Reform UK: Who is the party biting at Tory heels in local elections?

Rishi Sunak’s Conservative are on course for one of their worst local elections defeats, with polling experts suggesting they are on track to lose some 500 council seats.

While Labour are benefiting most, the Tories have also been troubled by the ascendancy of , which – with 17 per cent of the vote – were just 117 ballots away from in South , where Sir Keir Starmer’s party inflicted a crushing by-election defeat