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Loser Nigel Farage has reeled out a string of excuses for his Brexit Party’s failure to win the Peterborough by-election.

Labour won last night’s by-election, sending candidate Lisa Forbes to Parliament and denying Farage his Brexit Party’s first MP.

But this morning, a rejected Farage gave the bizarre excuse that his party didn’t win because too many people voted for another party.

He also blamed the loss on Brexit Party’s relatively short lifespan.

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He told BBC Radio 4: “Now, the only reason the Brexit Party wasn’t able to push a couple of hundred votes past Labour was because quite a lot of people still voted Conservative.

“There are now seats like this over the country where Conservative voters are going to start to realise, if you vote Conservative, you are going to finish up with a Corbyn government.

“Once that gets through, we will begin to see tactical voting.”

Mr Farage made a brief appearance at the count last night, in a sign that he may have been expecting victory - but was left disappointed.

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Jeremy Corbyn said it was a "great win" and represented a rejection of the Conservatives' "disastrous" handling of Brexit.

"In this key seat, the Conservatives have been pushed to the margins," he said.

"This result shows that, in spite of the divisions and deadlock over Brexit, when it comes to a vote on the issues that directly affect people's lives, Labour's case for real change has strong support across the country."

Labour won 10,484 votes to the Brexit Party's 9,801, with the Tories on 7,243 votes in a seat which has traditionally been a two-way Conservative-Labour marginal.

The Liberal Democrats were fourth with 4,159, while the Greens came fifth with 1,035 votes.

The by-election was called after Peterborough's previous MP, Fiona Onasanya, was forced out after she was jailed for lying about a speeding offence.

She was elected as a Labour MP in 2017 with a wafer-thin majority of 607 but was suspended from the party after she was sentenced.