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Nigel Farage v Count Binface - podcast
The Guardian Politics
Thursday 09 July 2026, 02:00 UTC
By Presented by Helen Pidd with Ben Quinn; produced by Natalie Ktena, Tom Glasser and Brian McNamara; executive producer Sami Kent
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Political correspondent Ben Quinn talks about the forthcoming byelection in Clacton after all Reform’s serious rivals declined to take partOn Tuesday, after months of scandal about his finances, Nigel Farage tried to take back the initiative. He was resigning as an MP, he explained, to trigger a byelection in his Clacton seat – giving “the people” a chance back him against “the establishment”. But, as the Guardian political correspondent Ben Quinn explains, things may not have gone quite to...
Political correspondent Ben Quinn talks about the forthcoming byelection in Clacton after all Reform’s serious rivals declined to take part
On Tuesday, after months of scandal about his finances, Nigel Farage tried to take back the initiative. He was resigning as an MP, he explained, to trigger a byelection in his Clacton seat – giving “the people” a chance back him against “the establishment”.
But, as the Guardian political correspondent Ben Quinn explains, things may not have gone quite to plan. After all Reform’s political rivals announced they wouldn’t take part in Farage’s “stunt”, it left him the prospect of six weeks of campaigning against the novelty candidate Count Binface.
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