Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has become an MP at the eighth attempt, taking the Essex seat of Clacton from the Conservatives. Mr Farage said: “We will now be targeting Labour votes. We’re coming for Labour, be in no doubt about that.” Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Farage Nigel Paul, Reform UK, £21,225.
00:09I therefore do hereby declare that Nigel Paul Farage is duly elected as the Member of Parliament for the Clacton constituency.
00:17We are going to come second in hundreds of constituencies.
00:31How many seats we're going to win, I don't know, but to have done this in such a short space of time says something very fundamental is happening.
00:40It's not just disappointment with the Conservative Party, there is a massive gap on the centre right of British politics and my job is to fill it.
00:48And that's exactly what I'm going to do.
00:51But it's not just what we do in Parliament as a national party that matters, it's what we do out round the country.
00:57Getting 5,000 people in that room in Birmingham last week, the energy, the optimism, the enthusiasm,
01:03the belief that Westminster is just completely out of touch with ordinary people,
01:08says to me that my plan is to build a mass national movement over the course of the next few years
01:15and hopefully be big enough to challenge the general election properly in 2029.
01:22What is interesting is there's no enthusiasm for Labour, there's no enthusiasm for Starmer whatsoever.
01:30In fact about half of the vote is simply an anti-Conservative vote.
01:34This Labour government will be in trouble very, very quickly.
01:39We will now be targeting Labour votes, we're coming for Labour, be in no doubt about that.
01:46I want to thank the team that have helped me do this over the last few weeks,
01:50my fellow candidates for behaving as impeccably as they have.
01:54Believe me folks, this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you.
02:02Thank you very much.