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Reform UK home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf says that Labour and the Conservatives are not running candidates in the upcoming Clacton by-election because they "do not believe they would have a chance of beating" Nigel Farage. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, this is a people versus the establishment by election. And the legitimacy of an election is not determined by
00:06Keir Starmer or Kemi Badenoch or Ed Davey or any political party that chooses not to stand a candidate. The
00:12legitimacy of an election is intrinsic to that election in this country.
00:17And there's one reason and one reason only that Labour and the Tories and the Lib Dems and the Greens
00:22are choosing not to field a candidate against Nigel. And that is that they do not believe they have a
00:27chance of beating him. You think that if they believe they had a chance of unseating the man who has
00:31been a thorn in the side of the Tories and of Labour, who has brought down umpteen of their prime
00:38ministers through his campaigning over the last few decades, if they thought they had a chance of beating him, of
00:44course they would take it.
00:45The fact that they have chosen to knock over the king before this game even starts tells you everything you
00:51need to know. This is about the people versus the establishment.

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