NIGEL Farage has arrived in Corringham to watch a football club’s first match with South Basildon’s new Reform MP.

The Reform leader is in Corringham today to meet up with South Basildon and East Thurrock’s new Reform MP James McMurdock.

McMurdock secured Reform’s fifth seat after lengthy recounts which lasted a full day.

Mr Farage was met by Mr McMurdock and East Thurrock Community Football Club’s chairman Jack Duffin when he arrived in Corringham this afternoon.

Bar- Nigel Farage stopped in a bar during his visit. Bar- Nigel Farage in the Wyldecrest Sports Country Club during his visit. (Image: PA)

The Reform leader posed for photos with locals in the bar of Wyldecrest Sports Country Club and drank a pint of Doom Bar while chatting to Mr McMurdock and other football fans.

A queue of people of all ages formed to take pictures of him in the bar.

Mr Farage met a boy who asked him to say “Brexit means Brexit,” for him to record on a phone, which the Reform leader did.

Visit- Nigel Farage is visiting Corringham to watch a football club's first match. Visit- Nigel Farage is visiting Corringham to watch a football club's first match. (Image: PA)

James McMurdock gained the South Basildon and East Thurrock seat from the Conservatives with 12,178 votes, winning a majority with just 98 more than Labour’s candidate Jack Ferguson.

Stephanie Metcalfe, who had been the Tory MP for the constituency for 14 years, saw his majority slashes as he won 10,159 votes. In the 2019 election he held his seat with a 19,922 majority.