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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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‘People are sick of being treated as useful idiots and voting fodder’, says Lee Anderson amid Reform surge
'We can't be blamed for anything at Reform UK, so people are turning to us in their millions,' the Ashfield MP declared