It’s eight time lucky for the Reform UK leader.
Nigel Farage’s victory speech in central London was repeatedly interrupted by a series of protestors calling him a ‘racist’.
Farage, who failed in his seven previous attempts to enter parliament, won the Clacton seat with a majority of nearly 10,000.
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As his victory press conference in Westminster began, a member of the audience interrupted his opening sentence by shouting “racist” and insisting that he was no friend to working class people.
After the first heckler is escorted out of the venue by security, another begins a similar onslaught. Overall, seven protestors had to be removed from the event.
Farage didn’t hold back with his response, shouting: “Are you downwind a couple already? You’ve had a bigger lunch than I have. Cor, he’s absolutely steaming isn’t he? That’s all right, there’s still plenty of beer left in the pub, mate.”
During the fourth heckler’s verbal missiles, the Reform UK leader can be heard saying: “You’ll do yourself a nasty mate. you’ll have a stroke if you carry on like this.”
After the team of protestors had been ejected from the conference, Farage carried on his winning address to the media and his fellow party members.
“Above all what we’re going to do from today is we’re going to professionalise the party, we’re going to democratise the party and those few bad apples that have crept in will be gone, will be long gone, and we will never have any of their type back in our organisation.
“You have a 100% promise on that,” he added.
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The 60-year-old insisted that the party’s focus was now on going “after Labour votes” and added: “Old Labour was very, very patriotic. It believed in the country. It believed in its people. New Labour far less so.”
The former I’m A Celebrity runner-up received a message of congratulations from the former US President Donald Trump.
Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump said: “Congratulations to Nigel Farage on his big WIN of a Parliament Seat Amid Reform UK Election Success. Nigel is a man who truly loves his Country! DJT.”
