Reform UK leader Nigel Farage won his self-triggered by-election in Clacton on Friday but saw his strategy to silence critics backfire when his main rival Count Binface, a comedian dressed as a trash can, took more than a quarter of the vote.
Farage, one of Britain’s leading Brexit campaigners, in a highly unusual move, did not turn up at the vote count in the southern English seaside resort of Clacton
