Why the probe into Nigel Farage’s finances didn’t hurt him at the ballot box

By Edmund Kelly, PhD candidate, Department Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Nigel Farage is the latest in a long line of politicians to face questions about his financial affairs. Despite this, the Reform UK leader comfortably avoided a binning by his constituents in the Clacton byelection – albeit in the absence of the main parties.

This is perhaps unsurprising. The allegations against Farage include the claim (currently subject to a parliamentary standards investigation), that he should…

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