Kemi Badenoch: Why the Tories won't stand in Farage's 'fake' by-election

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Labour, the Lib Dems, the Conservatives, the Greens and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain have confirmed they are not putting up candidates. Kemi Badenoch joins Nick Ferrari to explain how Nigel Farage could be set to run against just one other candidate, Count Binface. It comes after yesterday the Reform leader sensationally quit as MP and vowed to fight a "people versus establishment" by-election in the Essex seat amid a row over his finances and a parliamentary investigation. Farage denies any wrongdoing in the row over undeclared gifts and donations he received before he was elected. Farage also said Reform UK will foot the bill for the by-election but last night, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) told LBC that the move would be illegal. Now, Labour, the Lib Dems, the Conservatives, the Greens and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain have agreed not to put up candidates labelling the by-election as a "circus" - meaning his only confirmed challenger so far

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