'Having wasted £250,000 of taxpayers’ money on an unnecessary poll, Farage is right back where he started: facing a Parliamentary standards investigation', TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak writes

With his popularity on the slide and mired in a donor scandal, Nigel Farage’s political career could fall into the shadows even if he wins his by-election stunt

"For a man who has built a career denouncing waste in Westminster and Whitehall, the contradiction is glaring, with the cost of polling stations, staff, security and a count of…