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Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, announced that he would leave parliament (by applying to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead) and then fight a by-election at Clacton. ‘It’s a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire Establishment,’ he said. His announcement came after a report in the Sunday Times saying that he did not declare, on becoming an MP, benefits received in the preceding year from George Cottrell, 32, who spent eight months in jail in America after admitting a charge of wire fraud in 2016. The main parties and Restore said they would not put up candidates against Farage. In a 400-page judgment, the High Court dismissed claims of misuse of private information made against the publisher of the Daily Mail by the Duke of Sussex and six others – Elton John, David Furnish, Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost, Baroness (Doreen) Lawrence of Clarendon and Simon Hughes – who had not proved unlawful information-gathering. The Duke of Sussex’s people said he would stay at Buckingham Palace during his five-day visit to England, but Buckingham Palace said he wouldn’t, as he’d left it too late to reply to his invitation.
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Brendan O’Neill
Nigel Farage isn’t the one behaving badly in Clacton
