Less than 24 hours after appointing himself his party’s leader and declaring his intention to stand for parliament, Nigel Farage rolled into his chosen seat of Clacton on Tuesday, promising to “stand up for the little guy” and “be a bloody nuisance” to those in Westminster.
But an event that started with the inevitable on-brand pint in the local Wetherspoon’s concluded with a milkshake to the face, after a woman flung the contents of a takeaway cup at Farage as he made his exit a couple of hours later. It summed up the mood of the day in the Essex resort, as well as the character of the man himself – at times genial, at times disturbingly divisive.
