Reform UK leader Nigel Farage meeting residents in Caerphilly, south Wales earlier this month with his party's candidate, Llyr Powell (right), for the Caerphilly Senedd by-election. Photograph: Ben Birchall/ PA Wire
Voters go to the polls on Thursday in a crucial by-election in Caerphilly, south Wales, which is being seen as a bellwether for the rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and the collapse in support for Labour.
Labour has dominated politics in the area for more than 100 years.
However, if Reform pinches Caerphilly’s Senedd (Welsh parliament) seat – it is in a two-horse by-election race with Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru – it will buttress its claim to be on
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