Nigel Farage, a driving force behind Britain’s Brexit movement and close confidant of former US President Donald Trump, has been elected to parliament for the first time, as his upstart right-wing Reform UK party looks to shake up the country’s politics.
Nigel Farage, a driving force behind Britain’s Brexit movement and a confidant of former US President Donald Trump, has been elected to parliament for the first time, as his upstart right-wing Reform UK party looks to shake up the country’s politics. Farage becomes a member of Britain’s parliament on his eighth attempt after winning with 46.2% of the vote in the heavily pro-Brexit Clacton, a seaside town on England’s southeastern coast where Reform UK had polled well.
He won Clacton on a massive swing towards Reform UK, picking up 21,225 votes to the Conservatives’ 12,820. Friday’s results now give Reform UK a small but significant base from which to oppose Labour leader and soon-to-be new UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a crucial parliamentary platform. “It’s not just disappointment with the Conservative Party. There is a massive gap on the center right of British politics and my job is to fill it.
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