Editorial: El Mundo

• Populist Nigel Farage is making gains in the British local elections, threatening the leadership of Keir Starmer.
• This shift reflects an historic political fragmentation in the UK, highlighting the inability of traditional parties to offer answers to citizens.
• Starmer's party lost 1,360 council seats, falling in the north of England and urban areas, and was relegated to third position in Wales.
• Farage's rise and his party, Reform UK, is largely due to the gap left by traditional parties.
• Labour and Conservative parties have failed to respond to the challenges of globalization, exacerbating the feeling of abandonment by elites.
• The Labour defeat is a warning for European social democracy about the need to combine economic protection, social mobility and a sense of collective belonging.

Conclusion: The situation in the UK illustrates the crisis of traditional parties which are unable to respond effectively to the challenges of modern society, creating space for the emergence of populist movements.

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