Nigel Farage promises trouble after election to UK parliament
- Nigel Farage promises to challenge Labour and professionalise the far-right Reform UK party
Brexit kingpin Nigel Farage has finally won a seat in Britain’s parliament at the eighth attempt and is as determined to be as much of a “bloody nuisance” there as he was to European Union leaders as a member of the European Parliament.
The election of the 60-year-old former commodities trader by the English town of Clacton-on-Sea is the culmination of a political career forged from his loathing of the EU’s project for closer union and hatred for the Conservative Party.
“My plan is to build a mass national movement over the course of the next few years and hopefully be big enough to challenge the general election properly in 2029,” said Farage, hailing his victory with 46 per cent of the vote in Clacton, a one-time popular holiday destination which voted for Farage’s pro-Brexit UKIP party in 2015.
“This Labour government will be in trouble very, very quickly and we will now be targeting Labour voters, we are coming for Labour – be in no doubt about that,” he said, after Labour was set for a landslide victory in Thursday’s election against a humiliated Conservative Party.
Farage used his two-decade stint in the European Parliament to mock top European officials and drove Britain’s Conservatives to call the 2016 referendum on European Union membership in which Britons narrowly voted to leave.
