UKIP won seats in the Welsh Assembly for the first time

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The party saw more than 20 new councillors elected to councils and it took six seats on the Welsh Assembly, which saw dramatic political comebacks for former Tory MPs Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless.

Mr Farage said his people’s army was “really biting hard” into the Labour vote.

Ukip was now confirmed as “the third biggest party in the United Kingdom by a country mile”, he declared.

The party leader said: “Many traditional Labour voters look at Jeremy Corbyn and look at the Labour party and see that it’s gone way to the Left – and doesn’t look very patriotic.