Clacton-on-Sea is the Reform leader's constituency - yet he was milkshaked in broad daylight as he launched his election campaign. I went to the pub that became the scene of a crime.

Like many cornerstones of British culture, Nigel Farage’s milkshake-gate was immortalised during an election campaign.

Eclipsing the Portillo moment, in June 2024 the now MP for Clacton-On-Sea had the contents of a banana-yellow milkshake emptied on his balding head on the steps of a Wetherspoons in his own back-yard. I went to the very same pub, Essex’s Moon and Starfish, to see if the humiliating moment lingers in the local psyche.

“We like Nigel", smiled Amber, 18, who was on her way out of the pub. Remembering the day Victoria Thomas-Bowen threw a McDonald’s milkshake over the Reform UK leader, she tol

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