The comments made by Nigel Farage on 9 July 2026.
My mandate starts and ends with the voters in Clacton. End of.
They are the people that really matter in all this. That’s why I’ve always fought for their voices to be heard.
When Labour and the Tories conspired to cancel the Essex local elections in 2025, they were running scared. They knew their game was up so they silenced the electorate.
I called them out then and I’m calling them out now. I relentlessly lobbied and campaigned for the voters’ rights to have their say.
The result? We forced Labour to U-turn on cancelling elections and Reform swept the board in Tendring.
The establishment colluded against the voters to deny them a voice in 2025, and they are colluding again to deny them the MP that they voted for.
Let Clacton be my judge.