Nigel Farage wins in Clacton with Count Binface securing more than 25% of vote

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 managed to increase his vote count from the last general election by just over 1,000 though he faced no serious competition from other major parties. Count Binface, a comedy candidate who we