The chairman of Reform UK has vowed to “remoralise” young people and “end all this woke nonsense” following his party’s success in the local elections. Nigel Farage’s party won 677 out of 1,600 councillor seats last week along with the Runcorn and Helsby by-election in a transformative moment for British politics.

The polls are the first broad test of voter sentiment since last summer’s general election victory by the Labour Party over the Conservatives.