Several protesters have been removed from a Reform UK rally after they tried to heckle Nigel Farage moments after he started his speech.
Farage, 60, is the newly elected MP for Clacton - and is one of the four members of his party who have gained a seat in the House of Commons.
One by one, seven protesters who had been sitting in the crowd stood up and started jeering at Farage. Security moved the hecklers, with the remaining crowd cheering as they were dragged away.
Farage, who won 21,225 votes - earning a 8,405 majority, was accused of being a "racist" by several of the protesters.
Furious protesters booed out of Nigel Farage rally after heckling Reform UK leader just SECONDS into speech
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The Reform UK leader mocked the protester, clapping back: "Are you down wind of a couple already?"
"He's absolutely steaming isn't he? That's alright there's still plenty of beer left in the pub mate," he said, as the ruckus continued.
As more protesters stood up and began jeering at the Reform UK leader, Farage tried to drown them out by saying "boring" repeatedly - nine times to be exact.
"Well this is good preparation for the House of Commons I suppose," he chuckled.
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One of the protesters is dragged out of the venue
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Farage repeated "boring" as the ruckus occurred
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Farage continued to snap back at the hecklers, telling one of them: "You’ll do yourself a nasty mate. you’ll have a stroke if you carry on like this."
Dismissing a woman who taunted him with a "bye darling", Farage asked the rowdy room: "Any more for any more?"
After a slight pause, the final protester shouted: "Actually yes."
"We haven’t organised this very well, have we?," Farage joked as security tended to the hecklers.
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Once the protesters had left the building, Farage finally began his speech. He said he had two goals - to win millions of votes and establish a "bridgehead" in parliament to rival the Conservatives.
He said that Reform UK’s focus will be on going "after Labour votes". He said: "Old Labour was very, very patriotic. It believed in the country. It believed in its people. New Labour far less so."
Farage continued: "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.
"You have a 100 per cent promise on that."
Farage will be joined in the Commons by former Tory Lee Anderson, party chairman Richard Tice, and former Southampton FC chairman Rupert Lowe.