Mr Farage’s first press conference as an MP was interrupted by six protesters who repeatedly accused the Reform leader of being racist and planning to sell off the NHS.
As Reform supporters removed the protesters one by one, Mr Farage suggested they could be paid actors aiming to disrupt his plans.
Mr Farage said: “The political establishment are in fear in private as to what happened last night with those results in the election.”
When he returned to frontline politics and took over as head of Reform in June, Mr Farage said he had two aims – “first to get millions of votes” and the “second was to establish a bridgehead in parliament”.
Mr Farage promised to now use his platform in Parliament and “work with anyone” to achieve his long-time aim of scrapping the First Past the Post Electoral system – highlighting the party’s 14% vote share that yielded just four MPs.
“Above all what we’re going to do from today is we’re going to professionalise the party, we’re going to democratise the party and those few bad apples that have crept in will be gone, will be long gone, and we will never have any of their type back in our organisation,” he said.
Mr Farage denied he would join any pact with the Tories, saying he would prefer to “let the Conservative Party tear themselves apart”.
