Britain's governing Conservative party is dramatically losing seats in local council elections, with the former political outsider - the eurosceptic UK Independence Party - making impressive gains. Early results show UKIP has so far grabbed 26 per cent of the vote, while coming second in the by-election in South-Shields, pushing the Tories into third place.
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