Farage claims ‘overwhelming endorsement’ with Clacton by-election win

Harry Taylor, Sam Russell and George Lithgow, Press Association Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election amid contested claims he was told by police not to attend the election count due to a “credible threat” against him. The Reform UK leader pre-empted the official declaration by telling supporters he had won “fairly convincingly” and the…