Reform UK leader Farage will not attend election result, citing police warning

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England, Aug 14 - Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's populist Reform UK party, said on Friday he had regained his parliamentary seat, but would not be present at the count because of a police warning about a campaign to disrupt the result.

A small British seaside town voted Thursday in a special election between a hard-right populist and a man who wears a trash can on his head.Reform UK leader Nigel Farage resigned to call the by-election after being accused of accepting an unlawful gift, but no major parties ran against him, and one of British politics’

Nigel Farage depicts himself as an outsider taking on the establishment, but now the tables have turned.