Conservative Chairman Grant Shapps: UKIP result a 'wake-up call'
The Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps has said Clacton's by-election result was a "wake-up call' for Tory supporters.
He was speaking after UKIP made electoral history by gaining its first-ever elected MP.
Douglas Carswell, who left the Conservatives, won in Clacton in Essex, by a margin of 12,404 votes.
The Conservatives finished in second place ahead of Labour and the Greens - the Liberal Democrats lost their deposit.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty, Mr Shapps insisted that Conservatives must take note, claiming a vote for UKIP at the general election would usher in Labour.
10 Oct 2014
- From the section UK Politics