内容摘要：Andrew Brown, who runs community group Stand Up For Southport, said the town had a "massive healing process" to go through with more "trauma" to come.

Andrew Brown, who runs community group Stand Up For Southport, said the town had a "massive healing process" to go through with more "trauma" to come.

The map above is the most detailed local election mapping ever produced by the BBC. It details the strength of the Reform vote in every ward that voted on Thursday and shows support for Reform varied considerably.That variation has some striking and important features. They suggest the party was particularly popular among those who voted for Brexit in 2016 and for Boris Johnson in 2019 - and that Reform's success cannot simply be dismissed as a short-lived protest vote.

Reflecting the party's anti-EU stance, Reform did much better in wards that voted heavily for Leave in the 2016 EU referendum than it did in wards that backed Remain.In wards where more than 65% voted Leave in 2016, Reform won on average as much as 45% of the vote. In contrast, in places where a majority backed Remain, only 19% voted for Reform.Although talked about much less by politicians nowadays, Brexit is still an important fault line in our politics. Reform's appeal is significantly concentrated among those who believe the Brexit decision was right.

Even so, the fact that even in pro-Remain wards the party was able to win as much as a fifth of the vote was testimony to the scale of the swing that it enjoyed on Thursday.The Brexit division is also evident in the demographic character of the places where Reform did best and those where it did less well.

University graduates and those in professional and managerial jobs were least likely to vote for Brexit in 2016. Reform found it more difficult to do well in places where they are most numerous.

Reform won 39% of the vote in heavily working-class wards but only 19% in the most middle-class ones.It was hoped the money would pay for a renovation of two blocks, creating 48 spaces and opening in September, the

The council said there was a need for more secondary school capacity in Kettering, as it granted £561,000 to Latimer Arts College.An extra 49 places across years 7, 8 and 9 will be opened up by the money, with work to increase the size of dining areas also planned.

Further cash was handed to Alfred Lord Tennyson School in Rushden, which formed in 2023 when Tennyson Road Infants and Alfred Street JuniorsThe new school was given £925,000 to help ensure its combined site was ready from September 2025.