Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacts after winning the Clacton and Harwich constituency on July 5, 2024 in Clacton-on-Sea, EnglandUK leader, who won the seat of Clacton last night after previously failing on seven different occasions, was accused of bigotry and racism by protesters at the central London event.A handful of furious attendees shouted “you’re a racist” and “you don’t represent the working class” to the new MP.
He then called the protester “boring” and joked: “Well, this is good preparation for the House of Commons, I suppose.” The exit poll predicted the populist party would return 13 new MPs in total, but actually only Farage, Tory defector Lee Anderson, party chair Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe made it into parliament.