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Exclusive: A late bid was made to broker a deal between Sunak and Reform which could have saved scores of Tory MPs

Nigel Farage is back. The newly appointed leader of the Reform UK party has just announced his intention to run to be the MP for the Essex seaside town of Clacton – the only constituency to have ever elected an MP from Farage’s former party UKIP in a general election.

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COMMENTARY: The fundamental message from the polls so far is that Labour are ahead by a wide margin and not much appears to be changing

Police arrest 25-year-old after Reform UK leader, whose entry into election race has alarmed Tories, drenched in Clacton

The Reform UK leader launched his bid for election on Clacton pier declaring ’a revolution to change British politics’ but was left stunned when a protester threw milkshake in his face

Essex Police say a 23-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault

What changed? Until his press conference yesterday lobbed a hand grenade into the stagnant water of this election campaign, Nigel Farage had been emphatic that he would not be standing as a parliamentary candidate for Reform UK; and that he would, in any case, be busy in the United States…