Starmer hails Labour victory after surprise win in Hamilton byelection for Scottish parliament – UK politics live | Politics
By: Andrew Sparrow | Published: 2025-06-06 08:28:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
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Richard Tice says coming from ‘nowhere’ to being not far behind SNP ‘incredible result’ for Reform UK
Richard Tice, the Reform UK leader, told the Today programme this morning that his party had achieved an “incredible” result in the byelection. He said:
It’s truly remarkable. We’ve come from nowhere to being in a three-way marginal, and we’re within 750 votes of winning that byelection and just a few hundred votes of defeating the SNP, so it’s an incredible result.
Reform were actually 1,471 votes behind Labour. They were only “within 750 votes of winning” in the sense that, if they had managed to get 750 people who voted Labour to vote Reform instead, they would have come first.
Reform were also…
