Reform UK's double election victory is a 'wake-up call' to the major parties, Christopher Hope claims

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GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope has shared his analysis of the local elections, declaring that Reform's double victory provides a "wake-up call" to the major parties.Christopher explained: "It's been a bad night for both the two main parties. Look how badly Labour did in the Runcorn by-election. "They lost that, they lost an MP. That's a disaster for them. But their party, it was the 49th safest seat at the general election, the landslide election just ten months ago. It's a complete wake up call, I think, for the main parties."WATCH ABOVE.

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00:00Is it a night where we say it's been a bad night for Labour?

00:02Is it been a bad night for the Tories?

00:04What's the assessment?

00:05It's a bad night for both the two main parties.

00:08I mean, look at Great Lincolnshire, how badly the Tories did there,

00:12and they fought that one.

00:13Look how badly Labour did in the Runcorn by-election.

00:15They lost that. We lost an MP.

00:17That's a disaster for the party.

00:18It was the 49th safer seat at the general election,

00:22the Landside election, just ten months ago.

00:24It's a complete wake-up call, I think, for the main parties.

00:27I also am struck, I think, by the challenge faced by Nigel Farage.

00:31He says he's not a protest party, but really, in terms of MPs,

00:35he is a protest party.

00:37Are we going to see now more organisation, portfolios for different of his five MPs?

00:42Who's in charge of the economy? Who's in charge of home affairs?

00:45Who's in charge of health? Who do we go to?

00:47That's what we don't have at the moment,

00:49and that was the criticism labelled at the party by Rupert Lowe

00:52because of the disaffected independent MP now.

00:55He was right in that sense.

00:56But do you need that when a party is, in parliamentary terms, that small?

01:01I think when you have a party, if a party is that small

01:04and it's a protest party, you don't need it.

01:06If a party has pretensions on being a governing party,

01:10then that's possible.

01:11I've been sending here some forecasts

01:13on what this vote would mean at the general election.

01:15It would give the Reform UK party a huge majority.

01:21Big beasts who would fall were the Reform UK by-election

01:24replicated at a general election.

01:26Bridget Philipson, the Education Secretary.

01:28Rachel Reeves, she's out.

01:30Liz Kendall, work and pension, she's gone.

01:32Yvette Cooper, Home Secretary, she loses her seat.

01:35John Healy, Defence Secretary.

01:36Pam McFadden, the Cabinet Office Minister.

01:38These people, big beasts, these heads are rolling

01:41if this run-corn result is reflected in a general election.

01:45Of course, people would say by-elections very rarely reflect

01:49what's coming up in a general election.

01:51But what's different about this is it's not the opposition party

01:53that has benefited from the government's malaise.

01:57But Reform have a huge advantage here, don't they?

01:59They have no record to defend.

02:01So going into the next election, nobody can say,

02:04oh, well, you're saying this, but last time you were in power,

02:06you did this, which is, of course,

02:08what the Conservatives are going to face.

02:10So is it going to be just plain sailing ahead for Reform now?

02:14It will be for a while, but as you said earlier,

02:16they will be getting power over budgets.

02:18There will be choices made, decisions made about spending

02:21and also there will be scrutiny on these councillors.

02:24And if they put a foot wrong, the two main parties will jump on that.

02:27And I think they'll be punished much more than other parties

02:29because they're so new.

02:31But let's look at what the Labour Party are saying.

02:33They're saying, particularly in run-corn, it's a narrow defeat,

02:36but they need to work harder and quicker with their plan for change.

02:40That is a challenge for Labour,

02:42but will it be enough?

02:43What is interesting, though, as you said,

02:45there's not enough structure in Reform yet.

02:48There's none.

02:48Right.

02:49And people will accept that.

02:52But what the other two main parties don't seem to be doing

02:55is saying, you look at the polls riding high for Reform,

02:59why are people so fed up

03:01and what can we change to address that to try and win them back?

03:04And they don't seem to be doing that.

03:06They don't get it.

03:06I think that the more they talk of change, the less it's happening.

03:09So we have this plan for change from the Labour Party.

03:12But in a sense, they've carried on where the Tories left off.

03:14There's more tax, not less tax.

03:17Immigration or the small boats crisis certainly is getting worse, not better.

03:21I think net migration is coming down,

03:23but largely because of measures brought in

03:25in the last months of the last Tory government.

03:27So they talk of change.

03:29It's not happening.

03:30The idea of this uni party,

03:32with an idea on the social media,

03:33but they're both the same,

03:34I think that you are seeing that

03:36and Reform are saying we're completely different.

03:38And they can, they have a freedom of movement,

03:40Miriam and Steve, don't they,

03:41where they can say what they like

03:42because they're not in power

03:43and they will benefit.

03:44And you hear, don't you, from the Tories,

03:46we're in a marathon.

03:47It's not a marathon at all.

03:48It's a sprint for attention.

03:50Well, thank you.

03:57Thanks, 거예요.

04:02Thanks, Étienne.

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04:17Good.

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