Nigel Farage, a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, a driving force behind Brexit and Britain’s best known political disrupter, was elected to Parliament for the first time.
Mr. Farage won by a large margin in Clacton, a faded seaside town, where pre-election opinion surveys had suggested he had a strong chance of winning.
He had tried and failed seven times before to be elected to Parliament.
“The establishment are terrified, the Conservatives are terrified,” Mr. Farage declared gleefully in a speech last month, referring to the governing party.
Britain was “a broken nation,” he added, attacking targets ranging from asylum seekers to the BBC.
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BBC
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Clacton, Britain