Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleNigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has resigned as MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election in Clacton-on-Sea, which he intends to contest.Labour leader and prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, criticised Farage, calling it a "desperate stunt" and accused the Reform UK leader of being “up to his neck in sleaze”.Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch labelled it an "ego by-election" and an "admission of guilt." Badenoch said: “In doing this, what he is saying is that he's already guilty, it feels like an admission of guilt,” she said.Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called for Nigel Farage to fund the Clacton by-election himself. “We have just sat through a self-obsessed diatribe delivered by a Temu Trump who seems to think he is sat in the Oval Office,” said Sir Davey.Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: “Nigel Farage is once again trying to con the public with this stunt – trying to duck the fact that his history of taking dodgy donations is finally catching up with him.”In fullNigel Farage latest: Reform UK leader resigns as MP to force by-election after donation scandalMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in