Farage beats Binface: Reform chief wins 'joke' Clacton by-election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Count Binface, whose key pledges included keeping ice creams with flakes at 99p, making arcade grabber games fairer and filling potholes with the 2024 Labour manifesto, won more than 20 per cent of the vote, with 9,455 votes.
47% : The £5million donation from Mr Harborne was not declared when Mr Farage entered Parliament, with the Reform leader arguing the money was a personal payment linked to security costs and his role in Brexit.
43% : 'Do you know, if I made one sin, if I haven't filled in a piece of paper, I've broken no law, I've broken no tax law, I've taken no public money,' he said of the donation this morning.

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