Farage doused in drink during Clacton trip

Reform’s new leader Nigel Farage has been busy wooing crowds in Clacton as he launched his election campaign in the Essex seaside constituency this lunchtime. But the visit didn’t go off without a hitch for poor Nige, whose trip was rather rudely ruined by a bystander who threw a drink at the politician as he left a local pub.

The former Ukip leader was leaving Clacton’s Wetherspoons, the Moon & Starfish, when one decidedly disgruntled member of the public chose to make their feelings towards Reform’s newest candidate known. In what appears to be an attempted repeat of 2019’s milkshake attack — in which Farage was doused in the sugary substance by an unimpressed Geordie — the Reform founder had a similar run-in today. On leaving the pub, the politician was drenched in drink by a passing protestor — raising questions about yet another slip-up by his security team. 

The perpetrator slammed the new Reform leader, telling reporters: ‘He doesn’t stand for me, he doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here.’