Farage beats the bin! – Clacton results unpacked

Farage beats the bin! – Clacton results unpacked

Shock horror: Nigel Farage has won the by-election in Calcton. Although you may be shocked by the scale of the victory.

The Reform leader received 22,239 votes – 1,000 more than his total at the 2024 general election. His main rival, Count Binface – the ‘uniparty candidate’ as Farage says – secured a respectable 9,455 votes, a 26.7 per cent share.

Turnout stood at 44.37 per cent, the constituency’s lowest since 2010, but still pretty good for a by-election and such an unusual one at that.

But the big questions remains: did Farage get what he wanted out of this by-election? Or is this the farcical end to an undignified episode in British politics?

Oscar Edmondson, Tim Shipman and Noa Hoffman discuss.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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