Theresa May's rival Lord Buckethead appears on Last Week Tonight as John Oliver asks the PM to put him in charge of Brexit talks.
Local election results 2024 LIVE: Sadiq Khan calls for General Election with winCount Binface has been consoled by Sadiq Khan after losing in the London mayoral elections.
The wacky political figure, who claims to be a 5,072-year-old intergalactic space warrior, won 24,260 votes compared to Sadiq Khan's 1,088,225 . Britain First supporters could be seen booing Sadiq Khan as he stepped up to the podium to deliver his victory speech. He received 24,775 first choice votes, in comparison to Laurence Fox's 47,634 and Piers Corbyn's 20,604.
Binface, played by satirical comic Jonathan Harvey, follows in the long tradition of joke candidates running in high-profile elections in the UK. Lord Buckethead stood in Theresa May's consituency of Maidenhead at the 2017 general election and was even flown to the US to appear on John Oliver's HBO show Last Week Tonight.
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