Douglas Carswell last night…

“It is wonderful, it is a great feeling. I have been a member of Ukip for six weeks and all the time I have been in politics I have been looking for something like this – a party that is for ordinary people. It is not run by and for the convenience of career politicians. It is wonderful. I feel a sense of liberation. The extraordinary result this evening is not here in Clacton. It is what happened in Middleton and Heywood – in a rock solid safe Labour seat we came within a hair’s breadth of winning.”