Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said that the by-election was a “victory for sectarian voting and cheating”, referring to reports of “family voting”, in which relatives confer on what is supposed to be a secret ballot.
Democracy Volunteers, a group accredited by the Electoral Commission to monitor UK elections, said in an earlier statement that it had witnessed “the highest levels of family voting at any election in our ten-year history of observing elections in the UK”
“Matt Goodwin was a great candidate for us,” Farage wrote on X. “Roll on the elections on May 7. It will be goodbye Starmer and goodbye to the Tory party.”