UKIP leader Nigel Farage has warned David Cameron and Ed Miliband “we’re after you” after the party claimed its first elected MP by winning 12,404 votes in the Clacton by-election.
Elsewhere, the party slashed Labour’s majority in Heywood and Middleton to just 617 votes, which Mr Farage hailed an “absolutely astonishing” result.
Former Conservative MP Douglas Carswell won a landslide victory in Clacton, Essex, by securing 21,113 of the 35,386 votes cast.
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