NIGEL Farage has returned to Parliament following his by-election victory.
The Reform UK leader and Clacton MP vacated his seat on the House of Commons’ green benches earlier this year, to trigger a poll in the Clacton constituency.
He stood in the by-election, which took place last month, and won with a majority of 12,784 ahead of Count Binface.
This was up from his 8,405-vote majority two years ago.
Mr Farage took the oath on Tuesday afternoon, as MPs returned from their summer recess, holding a Bible in his right hand.
He was accompanied to the despatch box by his deputy Richard Tice and the Reform UK MP for Romford Andrew Rosindell.
After Mr Farage took the oath, the Conservative MP for Hinckley and Bosworth Luke Evans heckled from his seat: "Until the next by-election."
Mr Farage faces a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift he received from the crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne before he was first elected to the Commons in 2024.
The probe into an alleged failure to register an interest was suspended when the politician triggered the by-election, but resumed once voters in his constituency chose to send him back to Westminster.
If the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg believes Mr Farage has broken the rules, he will refer the case to the Commons Standards Committee.
If the panel decides to suspend him for at least 10 sitting days, a recall petition will be held, which will lead to a further by-election if 10 per cent of eligible voters in Clacton sign it.
Mr Farage, who has said the gift was not political and insisted he has done nothing wrong, previously described August’s poll as a "people versus the establishment by-election".
He said it was "a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go".
Speaking to GB News after his swearing in, Mr Farage said he had "met a vast number of constituents" as a result of his campaign trail this summer.
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He said: "We’re not a big party in the House of Commons and size of party is where precedence comes in the big debates.
"So, I’ll be here doing my stuff, but really, it’ll be Richard Tice and the rest of the gang doing more of the work in here as I travel ’round the country.
"And in fact, I’m even planning another tour of the country."
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