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Green Party leader Zack Polanski (right) celebrates with the Greens' Zoe Garbett after she was declared the winner in the 2026 London Borough of Hackney mayoral election at Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026. (Reuters via PA)
May 9, 2026, 3:27 pm
UK Jews worry as Green Party rise sees election of candidates accused of antisemitism
Jewish residents of Hackney in east London voice concern as Greens win mayoralty and council control; several Green party candidates accused of antisemism win election elsewhere, as does a Holocaust-denier from the soaring hard-right Reform party
By ToI Staff
Green Party leader Zack Polanski (C) celebrates with the party's newly elected Mayor of Lewisham, Liam Shrivastava (centre R), and supporters, outside the count center in Lewisham, south London, on May 8, 2026. (Brook Mitchell / AFP)
May 9, 2026, 12:23 pm
Anti-Israel Greens win 2 mayoralties, 5 councils in UK local elections; hard-right Reform is big winner
Farage’s Reform would be largest party in Parliament if general elections were held today; Polanski’s Green Party, engulfed in antisemitism scandals, wins mayoralty and council control in London’s Hackney, home to large ultra-Orthodox community
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Reform Party leader Nigel Farage shows his socks as he arrives at a polling station in Walton on the Naze, England, May 7, 2026 to cast his vote in the local elections.(AP Photo/Richard Pelham)
May 8, 2026, 4:41 pm
In UK local elections, anti-immigrant Reform soars; anti-Israel Greens rise, win 2 mayoralties
Starmer says he won’t quit; new mayor of Hackney reportedly blocked letter praising London police for response to antisemitic attack; Farage says results show ‘truly historic shift’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A man puts up 'polling station' signs at a makeshift polling station set up at St John's Parish Hall in central London on May 7, 2026, as polls open for local elections. (Peter Nicholls / AFP)
May 7, 2026, 10:13 am
UK holds local elections, with left- and right-wing populist parties expected to surge
Polls show PM Starmer’s Labour losing ground amid discontent and Epstein scandal, pushing Polanski’s anti-Israel Greens and Farage’s anti-immigrant Reform UK to the forefront
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE: Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Downing Street, in London, March 16, 2026. (Brook Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)
May 6, 2026, 12:11 pm
Local elections in UK could hasten end of embattled PM Keir Starmer’s tenure
Amid Epstein-Mandelson scandal and economic struggles worsened by Iran war, the center-left leader faces a party crisis as expert says his ouster is matter of ‘when rather than if’
By Jill Lawless
Britain's former Conservative Party Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick shakes hands with Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, after announcing his defection to Reform, during a press conference, in central London on January 15, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)
January 16, 2026, 8:49 am
Ousted Conservative Party politician joins Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK
Announcement of Robert Jenrick’s move comes hours after his sacking by Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for ‘plotting’ to defect to Reform in a ‘damaging’ way
By AFP
Kemi Badenoch with Robert Jenrick before being announced as the new Conservative Party leader following the vote by party members at 8 Northumberland Avenue in central London, November 3, 2024. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
January 15, 2026, 5:54 pm
UK’s Conservative Party leader fires chief rival after apparent plot to defect
Kemi Badenoch says ‘irrefutable evidence’ revealed Robert Jenrick was trying to bolt party — potentially to Farage’s Reform — in manner ‘designed to be as damaging as possible’
By Pan Pylas
Britain's Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a news conference in London, England, October 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
November 26, 2025, 5:17 am
Ex-classmates blast UK far-right leader for describing his alleged bigotry as ‘banter’
Nigel Farage denies he ever ‘directly racially abused anybody’ following report accusing him of making racist and antisemitic remarks in school, including saying ‘Hitler was right’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (right) attends a press conference with Zia Yusuf, head of Reform UK's Department of Government Efficiency, in London on November 18, 2025. (Justin TALLIS / AFP)
November 19, 2025, 10:43 pm
Far-right UK lawmaker Nigel Farage denies saying ‘Hitler was right’ as a schoolboy
Allegations from contemporaries in the 1970s include claims that Farage, who is leading in polls, often made a Nazi salute, whispered ‘gas them’ and sang Hitler Youth songs
By AFP and ToI Staff
Nigel Farage, Reform UK party leader, speaks with the press during the Runcorn by-election on May 2, 2025. (Oli Scarff / AFP)
May 5, 2025, 10:49 am
UK hard right sets sights high after local election triumphs
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party wins 670 local council seats, first two mayoral seats, signals potential realignment in British politics ahead of next general election
By Marie Heuclin
Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a campaign event in Glasgow on July 3, 2024 on the eve of the the UK general election. (ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)
July 4, 2024, 9:45 am
Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters head to the polls
Keir Starmer’s opposition party predicted to win nearly three times as many seats in parliament as ruling Conservatives; key tabloid The Sun backs challenger for prime minister
By Joe JACKSON
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