Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is expected to become an MP, after seven previous failed attempts, exit polls indicate.

The exit poll by Ipsos UK for Sky News, the BBC and ITV News, said Reform UK had a likelihood of 99 per cent to gain the seat of Clacton in Essex.

Across the country, the anti-immigration party is forecast to win 13 seats.

The party, which was formed only in 2018, currently only has one MP, Lee Anderson, who defected from the Conservatives.

It will be the first time Reform has managed to secure an MP at the ballot box.

Farage had earlier declined to say what number of MPs the party would classify as a win, but 13 elected representatives is higher than predictions by most polls.

It has been said that Reform’s wide but thin support would not help its success in a first-past-the-post system. Farage has been vocal about the need for changes to the electoral system.