{"id":678723,"date":"2026-07-07T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678723\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:29:10","slug":"nigel-farage-resigns-as-mp-for-clacton-triggering-by-election-which-he-says-he-will-stand-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678723\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"By-election expected to take place next monthpublished at 15:36 BST<\/p>\n

15:36 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Chris Mason
Political editor, reporting from the Nato summit<\/p>\n

Hello from the Turkish capital Ankara. I am part of the reporter pack covering the prime minister\u2019s trip to the Nato summit getting under way here. <\/p>\n

Nigel Farage \u2014 as so often in the last couple of years \u2014 has managed to upstage Sir Keir Starmer again, albeit via what his critics see as a self-serving stunt.<\/p>\n

Speaking to his allies this afternoon, his aim here is to clearly frame this as \u201cthe people versus the establishment\u201d, as one friend put it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Nigel setting the agenda, he is sick to death of being judged by Sky, The Times and Daniel Greenberg,\u201d they added, the latter a reference to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.<\/p>\n

They intend, I am told, to move the writ for the by-election as soon as they can \u2014 while parliament is sitting and before its summer break, beginning in a few weeks.<\/p>\n

That would likely mean a by-election at some point next month, just as a new government led by Andy Burnham is beginning its time in power, in all likelihood.<\/p>\n

The question now is how Reform\u2019s opponents react. Do they put up candidates or not? Reform is baiting Labour to do so, claiming it would be Burnham\u2019s first big test.<\/p>\n

But there is precedent in these situations for opponents not to bother \u2014 and to argue they are not going to endorse what they see as a publicity stunt by taking part.<\/p>\n

It is worth remembering that this by election doesn\u2019t end the investigation that the Standards Commissioner is conducting, which could itself eventually lead to what is known as a recall petition and, yes, a by-election.<\/p>\n

But Reform are effectively trying to say we are getting ahead of you \u2014 and who would want repeated by elections? A subsequent by-election would only happen in that scenario if enough folk in Clacton wanted one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By-election expected to take place next monthpublished at 15:36 BST 15:36 BST Chris MasonPolitical editor, reporting from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-678723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}