Kiran Stacey
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first heard Jun 2026
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This is The Guardian.
Nigel Farage is standing down essentially to say, look, I've got these standards inquiries into me.
I think they should be put to the voters of Clacton-on-Sea and not really be decided by Parliament.
Here we go.
Well, what's going on is this is a ruse that has been used by politicians before, successfully and unsuccessfully, I should say.
When a politician, an MP, is particularly unhappy about the state of affairs, one thing or another, they will sometimes stand down and trigger a by-election to essentially campaign on that one issue alone.
The one that springs to mind is David Davis, the Tory MP, standing down and running in protest.
He was in opposition at the time, but in protest against
the government's plans for detention.
The government was planning to be able to detain terror suspects for 90 days.
David Davis didn't like this, stood in a by-election, won the by-election, and then government policy changed.
Now, how much of those two things are connected, you can argue about.
However, it's also been unsuccessful in the past.
Zach Goldsmith stood down and actually ended up losing that seat to the Liberal Democrats, Sarah Olney, and is no longer in Parliament.
This is the first time that I have seen of an MP standing down, not on a matter of principle, but essentially to burnish their own agenda and their own public profile.
So Nigel Farage is standing down essentially to say, look, I've got these ethics, these standards inquiries into me.
I think they should be put to the voters of Clacton-on-Sea and not really be decided by Parliament.
Here we go.
Yeah, it's a really good point.
Let's just take a step back and think about the reason that Nigel Farage has done this.
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