Reform leader Nigel Farage has a milkshake thrown over him as he leaves the pub in Clacton

Reform leader Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown at him outside a pub during his campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

The incident took place outside The Moon and Starfish pub in the seaside town, just hours after Farage officially launched his election campaign.

He was seen splashing liquor all over his suit as he boarded his campaign bus.

In an advance speech to his supporters, Farage said he would cause a “bloody nuisance” in Westminster if he were elected MP.

In his first major public speech since announcing his candidacy, he addressed a crowd of hundreds of people on Clacton Pier.

Addressing his supporters at the meeting, Farage said the Tories must “pay a heavy price” for betraying Brexit promises.

The die-hard Eurosceptic suggested that a “section” of Conservatives could join his party and compared the situation to Canadian politics, where Stephen Harper had been elected as a Reform MP but would later lead a “new Conservative” government .

Farage on Monday backtracked on his earlier suggestion that he would not stand as a candidate in this general election. He chose to fight in Clacton and was installed as reform leader in Richard Tice’s place.

Farage took aim at the Tories over the handling of Brexit: ‘We have made an offer to the British people to regain our independence and control of our borders.

‘But what happened? The Conservatives have betrayed that trust. They have opened the borders to mass immigration like we have never seen before.

“And they deserve to pay a price for it, a high price.”

He added that the general election was effectively over: ‘That breach of trust with the Conservatives means they’re done, they’re done.

“We’re going to have a Labor government. Like it or not, we’re going to have a Labor government – the question is: who will be the voice of the opposition?”

Farage had previously suggested he might be open to talks with the Tories, but suggested he would not be able to work with them in their current form.

Instead, he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that his aim was to take over the Conservative Party, rather than join it.

‘You can speculate about what will happen in three or four years. All I can tell you is that if the reforms succeed in the way I think they can, some of the Conservative Party will join us. a little way around,” he said.

In 2019, the former Brexit Party leader had a banana and salted caramel milkshake thrown in his face during an election tour in Newcastle.

The drink thrower in that case was later convicted of common assault and ordered to pay Farage’s dry cleaning bill, in addition to carrying out 150 hours of unpaid work.