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Count Binface: why Britain’s ‘joke’ election candidates deserve to be taken seriously

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par Richard Toye, Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s decision to resign his Clacton seat and force a by-election, amid scrutiny over his personal finances, has produced one of the odder spectacles in recent British politics. With every other major party declining to stand and despite a record 34 candidates running, his most prominent challenger is Count Binface, the silver-caped “intergalactic space warrior” with a bin for a helmet.

Danny Kruger, the Reform UK MP for East Wiltshire, told…

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