Though it received the third most votes, Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform UK party only managed to secure five seats in Britain's election system, as Keir Starmer's Labour party achieved a landslide victory.

Notwithstanding Keir Starmer's appointment as prime minister, the former US president Donald Trump praised the election of fellow populist Nigel Farage to the British parliament on Friday.

Despite garnering the third most votes, Farage's anti-immigration Reform UK party managed to secure just five seats in the British parliament, while Starmer's Labour party secured a landslide majority.

"Congratulations to Nigel Farage on his big WIN of a Parliament Seat Amid Reform UK Election Success. Nigel is a man who truly loves his Country!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Trump, who has called the divorced father of four "Mr. Brexit" and said the British nationalist would have done a "great job" as the UK's ambassador to Washington, has a long history of supporting arage.

Advocate of Brexit, Farage was elected to parliament on his eighth try and has never hidden his ambition to seize control of the Conservative party, which is currently the primary opposition after Labour crushed it in the polls.

Following an easy victory in Clacton, eastern England, he declared, "My job is to fill the massive gap on the centre-right of British politics."

The outcome defies a rightward trend among the closest friends of Britain, with Trump appearing poised to make a comeback in the US and the far-right National Rally in France vying for leadership.

With his triumph, Farage will probably feel more confident in his long-term plan to stage a "takeover" of the Conservative Party.

The Tories appeared to have suffered one of their worst-ever defeats as millions of their voters seemed to have already shifted their support to Reform.

An early exit poll that predicted Reform would win 13 seats, much more than the number predicted in the later phases of the campaign, created a sensation on Thursday night.