Nigel Farage's brilliant six-word reply as he discovers Reform UK has won fifth seat
Reform UK has won its fifth seat with a tiny majority in South Basildon after a great night for the party.
Nigel Farage was filmed providing a hilarious response after discovering Reform UK has just won its fifth and final seat in the General Election.
After a lengthy recount, James McMurdock clinched South Basildon and East Thurrock from the Tories, with Labour creeping up into second place.
Mr McMurdock won the seat with a marginal 98-vote majority over Labour, securing 30.8 percent of the vote to their 30.5 percent.
Meanwhile, the Tories crashed down by 39.8 percent in another drubbing.
As Reform UK's newest MP informed Mr Farage that Labour had conceded, the party's jubilant leader was filmed telling him: "Your life is ruined completely. Congratulations!".
He joins Mr Farage himself in parliament, along with the party's three other victorious candidates Lee Anderson, Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe.
In a follow-up video posted to Twitter, Mr Farage delighted in the win, despite Mr McMurdock being a "paper candidate".
"Drafted in at the last minute, former city boy, and he was absolutely neck-and-neck with Labour in the seat.
"So I rang him up earlier and said 'Look, give me the name of your agent so I can ring him up and find out what's happening' because they were on their third recount.
"He said, 'I don't have an agent, I'm my own agent!'. I replied 'Well who's in the hall watching the vote counting?', he said 'my mum and dad!'
"And he's won, he's an MP! Go on my son!"
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The fifth victory for Reform came shortly after a press conference with his four Reform UK Commons colleagues in central London, at which Nigel Farage declared his party's new focus will be going "after Labour votes", with the new MP for Clacton telling a London press conference: "Old Labour was very, very patriotic. It believed in the country. It believed in its people. New Labour far less so".
"And the journey that Lee Anderson has been on is a journey that at least a couple of million people have been on, and it'll be many, many more by the time we're finished, because no doubt, our priority now is to go after Labour votes. That is what we're going to be doing.”
Asked at a press conference how he would vet Reform candidates properly going forward, including for racism, he said: "Very easy. You go back through their social media records. You obviously do police checks and things like that. No, it's not difficult to do it and the message has to be clear and simple.
"We don't want anyone like that involved with us. Indeed I mean the racism problem in the Labour Party was enormous, but to Keir Starmer's credit, actually, he did quite a lot by getting rid of Jeremy Corbyn, who ironically has been re-elected.
"There's an awful lot we can do. There is plenty of racism in British politics. It's mostly in the Labour Party."
Reform UK was projected to win 13 seats in the initial 10pm exit poll last night, but it appeared the major final voter survey struggled to project the party's true performance due to it not existing at the last election.
The fifth win does, however, put Reform UK on more seats than the Green Party, and the new group of four pro-Gaza independent MPs who pulled of a surprise rout of the Labour Party and unseated shadow cabinet minister Jonathan Ashworth.
