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Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be announced as the Tory leader today but will have their work cut out for them as they attempt to regain seats lost to Labour and Reform in the General Election. Reform yesterday made tracks in local by-elections as Nigel Farage’s campaign – spearheaded by Anita Tolgyesi Stanley – decimated Labour in Bilston North (Wolverhampton). After handing the party of Government a crushing -38 percentage point blow, Deputy Reform UK leader Richard Tice predicted “hundreds” of new council seats for the party. Reform’s chief whip Lee Anderson said: “The political tsuna…