{"id":522785,"date":"2026-04-10T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:25:15","slug":"nigel-farage-says-reform-can-challenge-labour-dominated-merseyside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522785\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage says Reform can challenge Labour-dominated Merseyside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told the BBC he was planning to meet more than 100 Reform candidates in the North West as part of his local election campaigning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farage admitted that he had mixed expectations of success in some parts of Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, Labour&#8217;s Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham claimed a vote for Reform UK in the local elections could threaten regeneration projects in Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He urged voters to resist &#8220;taking out their frustrations&#8221; with national politics on &#8220;hard-working local councillors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Reform said they offered &#8220;better stewardship of council taxpayers&#8217; money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farage told BBC North West: &#8220;There are parts of Greater Manchester that are very bad for us, but equally parts that are very good for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to pin it down but in Tameside perhaps, might be one that you&#8217;d favour for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I don&#8217;t want to overly raise expectations, but what I will say is the map of local government will look very different after 7 May across the North West.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He told the BBC he was planning to meet more than 100 Reform candidates in the North West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}