Nigel Farage regains UK parliamentary seat, fights off Count Binface challenge

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage regained his parliamentary seat on Friday in an election he triggered to bolster his position against allegations of financial impropriety, a strategy that was undermined when his main challenger, a comedian dressed as a trash can, won more than a quarter of the vote. Farage, one of Britain’s leading Brexit campaigners, in a highly unusual move did not turn up at the count in the southern English seaside resort of Clacton because he said the police had advised him that there was a campaign to disrupt the result. “I am damned if I am going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory … and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies,” Farage told supporters…