Nigel Farage clings on in Clacton with victory over Count Binface

Nigel Farage having a drink on election day yesterday (Picture: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock) Nigel Farage will return as MP for Clacton after sealing a convincing victory in yesterday’s by-election against Count Binface. The result means the Reform leader’s resignation gamble last month – triggering what he pitched as a ‘people versus the establishment’ fight – appears to have paid off. But it is unclear how he will argue that victory in a heavily Reform-friendly constituency should ease the scrutiny over his finances that appears to have contributed to a slide in his and his party’s popularity. Farage did not turn up to the count, telling supporters that Essex Police had told him there was a plan to ‘disrupt and degrade’ him if he went along. BBC News later reported that Essex Police had