Farage resigns as MP and pledges to contest by-election

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Nigel Farage has announced he will resign as the MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election that he intends to contest while denying any wrongdoing over questions surrounding financial support he received before entering Parliament. The Reform UK leader said he wanted voters, not political opponents or the media, to decide his future. “The people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions,” Farage said, insisting, “I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money.” He also accused the political establishment of targeting his party, claiming parliamentary standards investigations were being used as “a political tool.” Farage argued the by-election would allow voters to “stick two fingers up at the entire establishment.” His resignation temporarily pauses an ongoing parliamentary standards investigation into a reported £5 million gift, which will resume if he is re-elected. Major opposition parties have indicated they will not field candidates against him.  Follow for the latest updates. . . . . #NigelFarage #Farage #ReformUK #Clacton #UKPolitics #ByElection #BritishPolitics #Parliament #PoliticalNews #FinanceDispute #PoliticalAccountability #StandardsInvestigation #Westminster #BreakingNews #WorldNews #News #LatestNews #NewsUpdate #NewsAlert #DevelopingStory #GlobalNews #CurrentAffairs #TopStories #HeadlineNews #LiveUpdates #TrendingNow #NewsFlash #ViralNews #thenewswhirl

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00:00was the final straw. Enough is enough. And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do?

00:05I could go out and try and make some real big money. I could go to the USA, where I've

00:11got

00:11plenty of offers. And then I thought, why should I be judged today or in history in the future

00:21by Sky News and their ilk? Why should they be the people that decide my fate when, as I repeat,

00:28I've done nothing wrong? I've thought about it hard and I've decided today, today I will resign

00:36as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election, which should happen,

00:44I hope, in short order. Now, I've decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my

00:51actions. This will be a people versus the establishment by-election. It's a chance to

00:59stick two fingers up to the entire establishment, to frankly tell them where to go. And that is why

01:07I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by-election. I will fight to win. I will

01:13fight to

01:14continue the political revolution that reform has started. And I would say this to you, the voters

01:21of Clacton, if I win, you win. Because if I lose, they win. And we will never, with the two

01:29old

01:29parties, get the type of fundamental change that we need to fix broken Britain.

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