内容摘要：Reform UK swept to victory in the 2 May local elections by winning 65 seats.

Reform UK swept to victory in the 2 May local elections by winning 65 seats.

He said voters told him that Northampton's Market Square, which was refurbished at a cost of about £12m - mostly from the government's Towns Fund - was not value for money."Going forward, we want to make sure those spaces are used properly," he said.

In North Northamptonshire, Reform UK now has 39 councillors, with the Tories having lost 37 seats to be left with 13. The Greens increased their presence by five seats to a total of eight, while Labour now has four councillors.While in West Northamptonshire, Reform UK were voted into 42 seats as the number of Tory councillors fell by 35 to 17.Labour saw its number of seats cut in half, to be left with nine, and the Lib Dems now have six councillors after picking up two more seats.

The Conservatives had been in control of Northamptonshire's local authorities for 20 years.The Tories had headed the former county council since 2005 and led both unitaries since their formation in 2021.

Brackenbury, who represents the Thrapston ward, said: "It's nice to have been re-elected, but I'm very sorry for all of my colleagues who worked so hard and who were such great councillors who weren't so lucky.

"Obviously, that's been replicated up and down the country with Reform's performance. I have to say congratulations to them."Actor and disability-rights activist Liz Carr, who made

, also opposes the legislation."Some of us have very real fears based on our lived experience and based on what has happened in other countries where it's legal," she wrote on X.

Dr Gordon Macdonald, from campaign group Care Not Killing, said the bill ignores the wider "deep-seated problems in the UK's broken and patchy palliative care system".Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy, the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to Holyrood, said it could become "easier to access help to die than help to live".