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UK Conservatives are about to lose big. Here’s how the Reform party is making it happen.

Keiron McGill delivered pizza to earn extra income during the pandemic; five years later he’s self-funding a run for Parliament as a Reform UK candidate.

Scrappy and persistent, and armed with a dozen volunteers and thousands of leaflets, the printing accounts manager and his party are now projected to take as much as a quarter of the vote in a district that had been a stronghold of the ruling Conservative Party.

It’s a dynamic that’s repeating itself all over England as the United Kingdom approaches Thursday’s general elections. “There’s been a sea change of attitude of people thinking, not only does the current Conservative government not work for them, but the opposition [Labour Party] doesn’t either,” says Mr. McGill. “They want a real change away

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