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Nigel Farage<\/a>, a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, a driving pressure behind Brexit and Britain\u2019s greatest recognized political disrupter, was elected to Parliament for the primary time.<\/p>\n The brand new rebel celebration he leads \u2014 Reform U.Okay. \u2014 was projected within the nationwide exit ballot to have captured 4 seats, greater than many analysts had predicted, in an electoral system that sometimes punishes small events. His celebration has been buoyed by an anti-immigration platform.<\/p>\n Mr. Farage received by a big margin in Clacton, a pale seaside city, the place pre-election opinion surveys had recommended he had a robust likelihood of successful. He had tried and failed seven occasions earlier than to be elected to Parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cThe institution are terrified, the Conservatives are terrified,\u201d Mr. Farage declared gleefully in a speech last month<\/a>, referring to the governing celebration. Britain was \u201ca damaged nation,\u201d he added, attacking targets starting from asylum seekers to the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A polarizing, pugilistic determine and a extremely expert communicator, Mr. Farage, 60, helped the Conservatives to a landslide victory within the final normal election by not working candidates from his Brexit Social gathering in lots of key areas.<\/p>\n This election, his plan was completely different: to destroy the Tories by poaching a lot of their vote, then substitute \u2014 or take over \u2014 the celebration\u2019s remnants. Early within the marketing campaign, after a journalist requested if he wished to merge his upstart celebration with the Conservatives, he replied: \u201cMore like a takeover, dear boy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Reform U.Okay. has come below fierce criticism in latest weeks after plenty of its candidates had been discovered to have made inflammatory statements. One stated that Britain ought to have remained neutral in the fight against the Nazis<\/a>; one other used antisemitic tropes<\/a> by claiming that Jewish teams had been \u201cagitating for the mass import into England of Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n The celebration has blamed a few of its issues on rising pains, has dropped some candidates and has threatened to take legal action against a private company<\/a> it paid to vet candidates.<\/p>\n Final week, an undercover investigation by Britain\u2019s Channel 4 Information secretly filmed Reform campaigners in Clacton using racist and homophobic language<\/a>, with one utilizing a slur to explain the prime minister, Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n