Nigel Farage live: Reform UK leader to give press conference days before Clacton by-election

Nigel Farage live: Reform UK leader to give press conference days before Clacton by-election Nigel Farage will hold a press conference at 11 on Monday morning with his home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf - follow live updates below Nigel Farage will hold a press conference at 11 today with his home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf. The Reform UK leader will take questions from reporters days before a Clacton by-election, in which he is hoping to get re-elected. Mr Farage triggered the race after resigning as MP for the area as questions mounted over his public finances, including a £5million donation he received from a cryptocurrency billionaire. Today's event is expected to centre on crime and the early release prison scheme. Since becoming PM, Andy Burnham has been under pressure over plans to release prisoners early from jail. The sentencing changes were implemented under Keir Starmer in response to a prisons overcrowding crisis left behind by the Tories. Mr Burnham has since tightened the rules so that rape, serious child sexual offences and grooming would be excluded from the early jail release scheme. But he has faced mounting calls to stop the early prison release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, two of whom will be eligible for early release as manslaughter charges are not included on the exemptions list. Follow live updates below... Zia Yusuf held not one but two press conferences for Reform UK last week. His second one saw him ridiculed and labelled a "pillock" after he announced measures that seemingly already existed. On Thursday Reform's home affairs spokesman Mr Yusuf was accused of trying to divert attention from sleaze allegations by announcing a 'Deliveroo law' to target illegal working. He was mocked when it was pointed out that company chiefs already face jail terms, as Mr Yusuf had demanded. Read the full story here. This time last year Nigel Farage had been holding weekly conferences - but he has since scurried away from public scrutiny amid questions over a £5million gift he received from a cypro billionaire. Will August be the return of the Farage weekly press conferences? So far, yes. We saw Farage out in front of reporters last Monday and he's back again this week. Last time, he focused on small boats. Read Mirror Political Correspondent Dave Burke's analysis on the last press conference as he looks at Farage's attempt to "divert attention" from questions about his personal finances. Nigel Farage will hold a press conference at 11 today with his home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf. The event is expected to centre on crime and the early release prison scheme. Since becoming PM, Andy Burnham has been under pressure over plans to release prisoners early from jail. The sentencing changes were implemented under Keir Starmer in response to a prisons overcrowding crisis left behind by the Tories. Mr Burnham has since tightened the rules so that rape, serious child sexual offences and grooming would be excluded from the early jail release scheme. But he has faced mounting calls to stop the early prison release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers, two of whom will be eligible for early release as manslaughter charges are not included on the exemptions list.