Anti-establishment parties made big gains in the UK's local elections

from Weekend Edition Sunday · host Ayesha Rascoe

The UK's two-party system is fracturing. Anti-establishment parties trounced the traditional parties, Labour and Conservative, in local elections. There are calls for the prime minister to step down.

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