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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 WINS huge election victory in Truss’s old seat as Tory heartland falls to Farage
The Conservative vote share collapsed 25 per cent as Reform won its twelfth councillor
Mark Dolan clashes with ex-Labour MP over Starmer ‘dodging’ weekly TV debates: ‘Pathetic!’
Rishi Sunak wants weekly debates with his Labour counterpart
Kwasi Kwarteng blasts Labour's attacks on Sunak and claims Starmer's party has 'lost the plot'
The former Chancellor said he has not ruled out a return to frontline politics
Diane Abbott race row investigation completed in December
The Corbyn ally was suspended from the Labour Party after seemingly suggesting Jewish People are not 'subject to racism'
Nigel Farage returns: Rishi Sunak's worst nightmare confirmed as ex-Ukip chief becomes Reform UK leader
The 60-year-old hit out at the Labour and Conservative party leaders
Sunak braced for hammer blow as peers poised to THWART Rwanda Bill again
Home Office minister Michael Tomlinson said Lords amendments were designed to 'prevent the very things the Bill is designed to do'