The small seaside town of Clacton is set to be the scene of a historic breakthrough for the UK Independence Party. After local Conservative MP Douglas Carswell defected to the purple party and stood down from his seat, a by-election now places him as front-runner to be re-elected, but this time on the Ukip ticket.
IBTimes UK went to Clacton to see how Ukip were campaigning in the days building up to this potentially momentous by-election, and whether the people of the town themselves thought that Carswell had local interests at heart.
