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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Reform’s Fleet Street ‘spoilers’: how party deploys tactic to get ahead of stories

Richard Tice’s NCA leak claims in the Telegraph would not be the first time Reform has used a more sympathetic outlet UK politics live – latest updates Late on Tuesday afternoon, as the British media was absorbing Nigel Farage’s shock decision to hold a byelection amid scrutiny over his finances, his Reform UK party supplied the Telegraph with a different story. The article revealed that Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, had accused the National Crime Agency (NCA) of leaking financial inf

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Chris Mason: Farage called by-election from weak position - and it could backfire on him

The Reform UK leader faces a challenge from Count Binface as the main parties rule out standing in Clacton.

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Chris Mason: Farage called by-election from weak position - and it could backfire on him

The Reform UK leader faces a challenge from Count Binface as the main parties rule out standing in Clacton.

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Farage denies stunt as Reform proposes August by-election date

The Reform UK leader tells the BBC it is "only fair" that it is the electorate who judges him.

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Express Politics8 Jul 2026

Nigel Farage just took the biggest gamble of his career – it could backfire spectacularly

Reform UK leader sees Clacton by-election as the next chapter in his war on the establishment, but it could quickly become a painful joke

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Who is Count Binface, aiming to face Farage in by-election?

After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Who is Count Binface, aiming to face Farage in by-election?

After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Who is Count Binface, aiming to face Farage in by-election?

After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Reform to ask for Clacton byelection to be held on 6 August after Farage resignation

Constituents to vote in contest being boycotted by major parties over financial scandal surrounding Reform leader Reform UK will request that the Clacton byelection be held on 6 August, the party has said, after Nigel Farage’s decision to resign from the seat. The Reform UK leader, who has represented the Essex constituency since the 2024 general election, said on Tuesday he was standing down and would put himself forward again in what he has sought to portray as a “people versus the establishme

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BBC Politics8 Jul 2026

Farage denies resignation is publicity stunt as Reform proposes August by-election date

The Reform UK leader tells the BBC it is "only fair" that it is the electorate who judges him.

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Bin tactics. At times like these, only a Zia perma-rage defence of Nige will do | John Crace

Reform keeps Tice on the bench, sending in attack specialist Yusuf in effort to take back control as byelection stunt unravels You can often tell when Reform is running scared and losing control of the political narrative, because that’s the time Richard Tice is put back in his box. Everyone but Dicky knows that Dicky is a halfwit. A man whose very life force is dependent on Nigel Farage’s continued existence. Without Nige there would be no Dicky. He is the tick with no autonomous nervous system

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Treasury yet to do due diligence on finding extra money for UK’s Nato spend

How to hit the 3.5% of GDP defence spending promise would be a matter for ‘the next prime minister’, MPs told The Treasury has as yet carried out no analysis of the trade-offs necessary for the UK to hit the 3.5% of GDP defence spending promise made to Nato, chief secretary Lucy Rigby has said. Under robust questioning in a joint session of the Treasury and defence select committees on Wednesday, Rigby repeatedly said that how to fund additional defence spending would be a matter for “the next

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