Nigel Farage has used his maiden speech in the House of Commons to launch a furious attack on his fellow parliamentarians.

The Reform chief says he and his party colleagues have found themselves “outnumbered” in the Commons on the matter of Brexit, claiming the chamber has a majority of pro-EU MPs.

Sitting alongside fellow Reform MPs Lee Anderson, Richard Tice and Rupert Lowe, he told MPs: “I spent nearly 21 years as a member of the European Parliament in Brussels.

“I have to say, this place is very different indeed. It’s smaller, there is no chauffeur driven Mercedes available for each member, no large lump sums of money which you don’t have to spend on anything or show receipts for, and I wonder, perhaps that is why so many in the British political system love the European Union so much.

“It is a rather wonderful place to work. What I perhaps didn’t expect was to come here and find I am more outnumbered here with my Reform team than we were in the European Parliament.

“There are more supporters of Brexit in the European Parliament than I sense there are in this Parliament of 2024.

“This is very much a Remainers’ Parliament, I suspect in many cases, it’s really a Rejoiners’ Parliament.”

He spoke after winning the Clacton seat with a resounding 46.2 per cent of the vote share.