âDisgracefulâ: what one election photo tells us about British politics in 2026
Results from coastal town of Clacton have been interpreted positively by Nigel Farage and Count Binface, but one spoiled ballot tells its own story UK
Results from coastal town of Clacton have been interpreted positively by Nigel Farage and Count Binface, but one spoiled ballot tells its own story UK politics live â latest updates It ended, perhaps fittingly, on a rather baffling note. After 34 days of campaigning to regain the parliamentary seat of Clacton on Englandâs south coast, Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform UK party, declined to turn up to the townâs leisure centre to hear himself declared the winner and MP.
It was quite the thing. The last high-profile winning candidate to fail to enjoy his moment of victory was Bobby Sands in 1981. The IRA man had his reasons: he was on hunger strike in a prison in Northern Ireland, and went on to die 26 days later.
Instead Farage attended a gathering of his supporters at an airfield on the outskirts of Clacton billed by his party as âFarage Festâ. He told fans he would be damned if he was going to stand on a stage âhaving won a resounding victoryâ and âbe demeaned and humiliated by nobodiesâ.
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