Reform UK’s Farage faces off against Count Binface in election

When former Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a victory speech after winning his north London seat in the 2024 General Election, he was flanked by someone in an Elmo costume and a man wearing a laboratory coat and a comically large hat.

The Reform UK leader quit as an MP to trigger the contest in protest at media and parliamentary scrutiny of donations from his backers

Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform U.K., Britain’s populist right-wing party, will face voters on Thursday in a special election that he initiated, hoping to return to Parliament weeks after resigning amid investigations into possible financial impropriety.

Polls open in Clacton, as research shows Farage has spent more than £10,000 in byelection