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Farage resigns as Clacton MP, triggering by-election he vows to fight
The Reform UK leader steps down in Essex to force a contest he intends to fight, pausing a standards inquiry into an undeclared five million pound gift. Rival parties line up to boycott the vote.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage secured a second win in the Clacton by-election, a former Tory safe seat
The Mandelson files suggest officials feared public scrutiny of Chagos deal but equally striking is what's missing....
The Mandelson files expose major gaps in the Government’s public narrative, writes the spokesman for Friends of the British Overseas Territories