Fresh calls to ‘unite the right’ as local elections suggest Nigel Farage will fall short of a majority and need the Tories to keep out nightmare Labour-Green coalition

The Conservatives and Reform must now form a pact to ‘unite the Right’ ahead of the next election to prevent a hard-Left government, a senior Tory has warned.

Analysis shows that if the local election results were transferred to a general election, Reform UK would fall well short of an overall majority in the Commons.

A projection by polling firm Rallings & Thrasher suggested Nigel Farage would win around 284 seats based on yesterday’s vote shares, shy of the 326 required to govern alone.

The Tories would lose 25 seats, far fewer than previously forecast, and could form a comfortable majority of 77 in

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