CANDIDATES  in Nigel Farage’s Clacton constituency claimed today that the Reform leader’s successful election campaign had felt like a “juggernaut” as police probe allegations of a breach in spending limits.

Former Tory MP Giles Watling described Mr Farage’s campaign as “a juggernaut but also one where we were swamped by people coming from all over the country to support him in his bid to take the seat.”

And Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul said: “I knew that I was on the back foot from an early stage. 

“It was clear when we saw what seemed to be endless supplies of leaflets going through people’s doors, fancy banners going up every day and campaign vehicles. For me this is about democracy.”

Mr Owusu-Nepaul was in fact withdrawn from Clacton by his own party midway through the campaign, as Labour was at that time content to see Mr Farage triumph.

Essex police have said they are assessing a report of “alleged misreported expenditure by a political party” after the submission of documents by a member of Reform’s Clacton campaign team.