Farage says he will resign to fight 'people versus establishment' byelection in Clacton Farage says he is going to fight a byelection in Clacton.

 

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Farage says he will resign to fight 'people versus establishment' byelection in Clacton

Farage says he is going to fight a byelection in Clacton.

 

It will be a “people versus the establishment” byelection, he says.

 

UPDATE: Farage said:

 

The issue with my daughter was the final straw. Enough is enough. And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do? I could go out and try and make some real big money. I could go to the USA, where I’ve got plenty of offers. And then I thought, why should I be judged today, or in history in the future, by Sky News and their ilk?

 

Why should they be the people that decide my fate? When, as I repeat, I have done nothing wrong.

 

I thought about it hard and I have decided today I will resign as a member of parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a byelection, which should happen, I hope, in short order.

 

Now I’ve decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions. This will be a people versus the establishment byelection. It’s a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire Establishment to frankly tell them where to go, and that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this byelection.

 

I will fight to win. I will fight to continue the political revolution that Reform has started, and I would say this to you, the voters of Clacton, if I win, you win, because if I lose, they win, and we will never with the two old parties get the type of fundamental change that we need to fix broken Britain.