Kiran Stacey
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first heard Jun 2026
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And I don't want to, I don't mean to belittle Nigel Farage's experience there, but it is simply not the case that he is the most verbally and physically attacked politician in modern times.
He does talk a lot about his security.
You know, he does have quite a few very large men who follow him around wherever he goes.
And one of the things that we found out is that George Codrell and Christopher Harbourn seem to have been helping him pay for those.
Whether the public...
looks at statements like that and thinks, well, that doesn't quite wash, or whether they feel sympathy with him is going to be very important in terms of how this is seen in the public.
I would also make one interesting comparison here.
It could be that Nigel Farage's comments today play relatively well with his own voters in Clacton, that he wins that by-election, that he emerges from it in a way politically stronger than he went into it.
However, it could be that the rest of the country watches this and thinks that's not quite the happy, positive, optimistic politician that we have become used to seeing over the last few years.
So his national poll rating could go down, even as his poll rating in Clacton is shored up.
I mean, it's so interesting.
There are broadly, I think, three scenarios that could play out here.
One is that all the other parties say this is a completely invalid process.
He's trying to basically rig an investigation process in Parliament and they simply sit it out.
And they say, well, if you want to fight a by-election against yourself, go ahead.
But we're ignoring it and we'll see what happens when you come back to Parliament.
That's, you know, that's not a bad idea.
Number two idea is Labour and the other parties do essentially what they did at the election and kind of stand back, not really campaign there, put up a paper candidate, but allow the Tories to really go after Nigel Farage and hope that their voters unite behind a Tory candidate.
Number three is somehow the main parties get together and find an independent they can throw their weight behind.
I think what's being talked about a lot in Westminster is the example of Martin Bell in Tatton, who won that constituency on an anti-corruption platform.
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