Farage: 'No asylum seekers in areas under our control'

Leader’s vow following the party’s huge election gains

- By STAFF REPORTER

REFORM UK will 'resist' asylum seekers being housed in the counties now under the party's control, Nigel Farage said as he celebrated significant gains across England.

Mr Farage’s party gained more than 600 seats and took control of 10 local authorities in Thursday's local elections.

In a speech in County Durham, where Reform had replaced Labour as the largest party, he said the party had “cleared a very important hurdle” and claimed the results marked “the end of two-party politics” and the “beginning of the end of the Conservative Party”.

Setting our his party’s agenda in local government, he said Reform would look to scale back councils’ work “to what it ought to be”, end working from home and sack staff working on climate change or diversity.