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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

How much Farage’s Clacton by-election could cost the taxpayer revealed as Reform leader quits as MP

Nigel Farage’s shock decision to resign and re-stand in his Clacton constituency could cost the taxpayer over a quarter of a million pounds, analysis by The Independent has found.

The Reform UK leader has quit as an MP amid two ongoing investigations by the parliamentary standards watchdog over undeclared gifts totalling millions of pounds.

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