Nigel Farage

By the way, you've probably never ever seen me ever read off notes in my entire career.

But you know what?

After two days, after nine weeks on the road, two days of doing this and almost no sleep, I thought I might forget, so it made sense.

And what's happening in the Tory heartlands?

Well, London's a bit different.

In London, the Tories held up in some areas.

In London, Labour held up in some areas.

But London has become a bit of a foreign country in many, many ways, apart, of course, from havering,

And well done to Andrew Rosindell, Keith Prince, all the team in Havering for securing our first London borough.

Although, of course, if you ask them, they say, we're not a London borough.

We ought to be in Essex.

So I was pretty confident this morning when I did the press conference just before nine o'clock.

I was pretty confident.

of being able to cite Frank Sinatra by saying, the best is yet to come.

Suffolk, we've won just the most overwhelming majority.

Quite extraordinary.

Norfolk, we're the biggest party.

But I want to talk a little bit about Essex.

I obviously saw the tendering

Results coming in last night, having been there and visited a few of the polling stations yesterday.