Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton

Nigel Farage: ‘It’s a really funny thing in life. But sometimes we all say things that we perhaps shouldn’t quite have said.’ Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Nigel Farage has admitted he misspoke when he claimed to have bought a house in his constituency of Clacton, saying the property is in fact solely owned by his long-term partner.

The Guardian revealed in May that the detached property in an upmarket part of Clacton-on-Sea was actually solely bought by Laure Ferrari, and when approached by the newspaper the Reform UK leader insisted his name did not appear because of “security reasons”.