'You drove my family into hiding!' Nigel Farage FURIOUS at Establishment in emotional message from Clacton

Mr Farage predicted he had won "very convincingly", saying he had beaten "Establishment candidate" Count Binface, the comedy writer named Jonathan Harvey backed by Labour, Tory and Lib Dem canvassers in Clacton.

"My voters are ordinary folk... Working people who get up early in the morning, go to work and are sick of the way this country is going and see me as a champion for their views," he said.

But with a parliamentary probe still looming if he does indeed win tonight, the Reform leader said he did not think the "uniparty" would call a second by-election if he is found to have breached the rules over a donation.

He resigned amid heightened scrutiny over the row, even admitting to GB News he did so in anger.

"If you threaten my family, threaten the safety of my daughter, drive another member of my family into hiding... Am I angry? I'm very angry," he said.

He added that it was "interesting" how attacks on his family had been dialled down after campaigning begun, and declared: "I was right to do this."

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