Protests kept apart - anti-fascist protest in foreground, far right in background.

Counter-protest was slightly smaller but noisier.

@sundersays.bsky.social Far-right protest in Newtown today. Estimate 100-150 present. Some had travelled in from Shropshire etc.. Curious locals on fringe watching rather than participating.

Meanwhile, in Devon, Reform’s strongest votes were both in urban areas and in “smaller rural” villages, coming second behind the Lib Dems in intermediate areas.

In Lincolnshire, in contrast, Reform was the leading party in all rural-urban classes, with its strongest vote in remoter areas (or “further from a major town or city” to use ONS’s description)

In Northumberland, Reform’s vote was lower in more remote areas and it won most of its seats in urban wards

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