Alex Forsyth

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Newscast · Nigel Farage Resigns As MP · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

The Green Party have said the decision would be made by their local branch, so the Clacton branch of the Green Party. voice-verified

But they do contest by-elections in their words, although Zach Polanski, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, has been pretty scathing about the actions of Nigel Farage today. voice-verified

Well, I mean, let's make no bones about it. voice-verified

When there is a by-election campaign, and by-election campaigns by their very nature attract more attention than an election would in the normal cycle because it's on its own as opposed to one of many. voice-verified

And when you get a by-election campaign with a high-profile candidate standing, exactly as we saw with Andy Burnham in Makerfield, and as we will see with Nigel Farage in Clacton, voice-verified

It does get a lot of attention and it therefore does allow the people who are contesting that election to have their kind of message broadcast through the papers or social media or old school broadcast journalists like us kind of loud and clear. voice-verified

And I suspect, you know, obviously this decision by Nigel Farage to deliberately trigger this by-election wouldn't have been made without careful consideration. voice-verified

And one of the considerations he omitted. voice-verified

inevitably would have given it, would be about trying to, as Chris said, seize the initiative. voice-verified

And also, I think, you know, get reform back on the front foot after there have been these questions over Nigel Farage and his finances. voice-verified

And Nigel Farage is in his happy place when he's campaigning. voice-verified

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likes to campaign or at least he comes across like he likes to campaign and is broadly thought of to be pretty good on the campaign trail when it comes to things like his interactions with the public I think what changes this is a couple of things potentially first off whether the other parties contest and it looks like most of the major parties are not going to because they've already said that so which and what other parties choose to contest this by-election which voice-verified

will undoubtedly change the nature of that fight. voice-verified

And then also what the public, because I think, you know, underestimate the public at your expense. voice-verified

And I think what the public make of the context of this by-election, whether they go along with what Nigel Farage is suggesting, which is that, you know, it's the right thing that the people of Clacton decide, or whether or not they think that actually Nigel Farage, as other political opponents of his have said, are doing this effectively for his own interests. voice-verified

Yeah, I was actually also watching it on my phone, but stood outside the Reform UK building in which Nigel Farage was giving it. voice-verified

I was stood there to try and nab a word with him after, which I spectacularly failed to do. voice-verified

But I was also watching on my phone. voice-verified

And I think it is important not to overly analyse Nigel Farage, how he's coming across or anything. voice-verified

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