We’ve not yet had the official results from the north-west, but Tommy Robinson has already declared defeat and left the building. The anti-Islam activist left the count in Manchester minutes after it emerged he had secured just 2% of the city’s vote, with expectations that he will do only marginally better when the north-west vote is declared in the next hour
While journalists were busy reporting on the Manchester result, Robinson slinked away and handed in his pass on the way out. “It doesn’t look like he’s coming back,” said one election official
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the Brexit party will have one more seat than the UKip party did in 2014, so no massive increase in the vote
After all that cash, press and voter suppression.
It's a loss.