Nigel Farage's Reform party won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by six votes.

Or by a 'gnat's knob' as one Farage supporter told Sky News, who also reported:

And so, after declaring the Tories are "toast", Mr Farage announced he was heading off for a bacon sandwich.

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Speaking after the result was declared, Mr Farage told Sky News that Labour's vote collapsed because of a "loss of confidence" and the fact "no one knows what the prime minister really stands for".

He said working people are fed up with higher taxes and illegal immigration, adding: "It's a sense of fairness and what's right and what's wrong bordering even on resentment.

Reform gains another sitting MP to bring their total up to 5, which is one more than the Greens and the same number as the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.