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Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

WATCH: Lammy Declines to Aid LibDem Campaign to Delay Clacton By-Election

At DPMQs LibDem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper asked Lammy: “Will the DPM join us in urging the Chancellor to delay the honorable member for Clacton’s resignation until the investigation is complete? So the good people of Clacton have all the facts before they cast their votes. And failing that, will he support our Clacton clause…

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Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

LIVE: New BBC Director General Questioned by MPs on Licence Fee

New BBC Director General Matt Brittin and Chairman Samir Shah are answering culture select committee MPs’ questions on the Charter Review. Follow along live…

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Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

Zia Yusuf: If Other Parties Thought They Could Win, They Would Stand in Clacton

Zia Yusuf has claimed that the boycott of a Clacton by-election by Labour, Tories, Greens, and LibDems is only because they know they would lose to Farage. He told BBC Breakfast: “The legitimacy of those elections is not determined by which parties coordinate together to not stand candidates. It is very much down to the…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Badenoch Says Tories Won’t Stand in Clacton

Badenoch: “We will be standing a candidate in the real by-election, which will follow the standards investigation into Nigel Farage’s fishy finances. We will not be standing a candidate in the fake by-election that Farage is causing to distract people from what is happening. We need to let that investigation run its course, and I…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Richard Tice Accuses National Crime Agency of Leaking Bank Statements to the Guardian

Reform has accused the National Crime Agency of illegally leaking its MPs’ bank statements to the media. Tice has written to NCA director general Graeme Biggar to demand an urgent investigation… Both Tice and Nigel Farage were the subject of leaks. Tice has written after the Guardian obtained details of a loan his company received…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

WATCH: Minister Chris Bryant Says ‘Most of Us’ Are Bored of Burnham Reshuffle

Trade minister Chris Bryant was complaining in the Commons about “the longest reshuffle in history. Um, I think most of us are bored with it already.” Seeing as Burnham isn’t confirming any jobs until he becomes PM, Chris has a few more weeks of boredom…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Rupert Lowe Won’t Stand Candidate in Farage By-Election

Restore was unlikely to have been a major threat to Reform in this by-election: “Restore Britain will stand in the Clacton by-election. The second one, held later this year, when the investigations into Farage’s finances conclude as we all suspect they will. We are not going to participate in a Reform-sponsored media circus over the…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Reform Offers to Cover the Cost of Farage’s By-Election

Reform has offered to cover the cost of the Clacton by-election for the taxpayer. Nigel Farage says: “I have spoken to the CEO of Tendring District Council. Reform has offered to cover the cost of the by-election. I will be writing to Rachel Reeves later today with the same message. Given that we asked for…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Reform Projected to Increase Vote Share in Farage’s Clacton By-Election

Clacton is almost completely coastal, comprising seaside resorts along the Tendring peninsula including Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze. An estimated 73.0% voted Leave in 2016, 71.6% of homes are owner-occupied, and the median age is about 53… Farage won Clacton from Tory MP Giles Watling with 46.2% of the vote, ahead of the Conservatives on 27.9%,…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

BREAKING: Farage Resigns as MP to Stand in Clacton By-Election

He says this is an opportunity to stick two fingers up at the establishment: “Why should I be judged today or in history in the future by Sky News and their ilk? Why should they be the people who decide my fate? I’ve thought about it hard I will resign as an MP for Clacton…

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

LIVE: Farage Makes ‘Statement About His Political Future’

Live at 2 p.m, follows a row with Sky News.

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Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Valedictory Painting of Rachel Reeves Appears in Parliament

On the first floor of Portcullis House a painting of Rachel Reeves has appeared. Next to one of Elizabeth II… By Sally Ward and painted this year, the accompanying plaque has the following to say: “Rachel Reeves (born 1979) is the first woman to hold the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer. This informal portrait…

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