Farage aims for Ukip by-election win following Euro success

Jubilant Ukip leader Nigel Farage said his “people’s army” was on its way to Westminster after securing first place in historic elections for the European Parliament.

Mr Farage said that the eurosceptic party will “give it our best shot” in next week’s by-election in Newark – an area where it finished top last night despite trailing the Tories by 25,000 votes in the 2010 general election – and was hoping to secure “a good number” of MPs when the country goes to the polls in May 2015.