Farage's Pyrrhic Clacton Victory Won't Rush Burnham Into an Election

In the battle between the bin and Nigel Farage, there was only ever going to be one winner. The leader of the populist Reform UK party romped home as expected in Thursday’s Clacton special election against 33 joke candidates, including his main antagonist and media darling, Count Binface, a self-styled space warrior with a trash can on his head.