Police arrest 25-year-old after Reform UK leader, whose entry into election race has alarmed Tories, drenched in Clacton
The Reform UK party’s new leader, Nigel Farage, had a milkshake thrown over him on his first day of campaigning in Clacton, the Essex constituency where he is making his eighth attempt to become an MP.
A woman, 25, was arrested on suspicion of assault after the incident, in which Farage was drenched with a banana milkshake as he came out of the pub on Clacton’s beachfront. “This internal struggle of the right narrative is going to, by default, almost certainly deliver a leftwing government, which is the opposite of what we both want,” Longhi told the Times.were facing a major challenge, after a YouGov poll on Monday suggested the party could fall to 140 seats. He insisted that a vote for Reform would open the door to a Labour government.
Amid fresh rumours on Tuesday that Farage’s return to frontline politics could trigger defections by Tory candidates, the former Conservative leader William Hague likened Farage to a “big wrecking ball” that now threatened the Tory party. He said he would bring investment and jobs to the area, home to some of the most deprived communities in Britain, and said the Tories and Labour were not “genuinely patriotic”.
Carswell said: “Immediately Rishi called an election, I sent him a message saying you’ve got to run and it’ll be hilarious. When he initially said he would not, I thought it was the wrong call.
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