All major parties back out of Farage by-election | LBC debate

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Nigel Farage could be set to run against just one other candidate, Count Binface, after all other major political parties confirmed they would not field candidates in the Clacton-on-Sea by-election. On Iain Dale's Cross Question panel (from left to right): Lib Dem Lisa Smart, the Guardian's Zoe Williams, former Tory minister Justine Greening and political commentator Benedict Spence. 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 hav

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