"You need to wake up; your party is dying." This was the warning issued this Wednesday during the weekly government question time. premier Keir Starmer lashed out at British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch.

On September 7, returning from a flying visit to Edinburgh, this correspondent stopped for refreshments at Darlington, a market town –historical category that designates populations with the right to hold a weekly market, but which cannot be called city, Despite its current population of 110,000, it is located in County Durham, in the north of England, 56 km south of Newcastle. London is a long way off, but the impact of the resignation of the deputy prime minister for failing to pay the taxes she should have paid is still noticeable.

Almost a year after the victory Labour in the UK general election, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's popularity is plummeting. And that of the populist and xenophobic Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party –the same politician who did not rest until to provoke a divorce with the European Union nine years ago, it's been through the roof. So much so that, in recent days, various polls have given it a good chance of becoming one. premier. Or at least win the elections if they were held tomorrow and not in the summer of 2029, when they are scheduled to be called.

Less than one year after coming to power, British Labour seems to have lost its way and is trying to get back on track by definitively abandoning progressive policies and adopting those of the far right. In short, this Monday the premier Keir Starmer implicitly pointed to foreigners as responsible for the vast majority of the country's ills during the presentation of the long-awaited white paper on immigration. give a concrete figure. Between June 2023 and 2024, it stood at 728,000 people, and the same previous period (2022-23) reached almost a million people. budgets and opts for the same demagogic drift of Nigel Farage's Reform Party, which ten days ago won the local elections in England, and threatens the hegemony of the large traditional formations. A drift and a rhetoric that many analysts identify with the riots last summer in different cities across the country, following the murder of three girls while participating in a summer recreation program in the north of the country.

Nine years after Nigel Farage shook up the British political landscape with the Brexit referendum and the subsequent the United Kingdom's exit from the European UnionThe populist and anti-immigration leader, a friend of Donald Trump and supporter of many of his policies, with the exception of tariffs, issued a warning this Thursday to the traditional two-party system in the United Kingdom. elections this Thursday, in two of the six contested mayoralties and also in a constituency in the northwest of England in the House of Commons. In the latter case, the RUK snatched the Runcorn and Helsby seat (in northwest England) from Labour by just six votes, overturning the government's 2024 majority of more than 14,000. The result was announced early Friday morning after a second count, which widened the gap between the two parties from four to six.

Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.

Keir Starmer's government has come to the conclusion that it must not only say what it is doing in terms of immigration, with specific data on how it combats irregular arrivals in the country, but it must also offer images to the public of the heavy-handed way it treats those who are in the country without papers.