Nigel Farage said he was standing down as a Member of Parliament and will stand in the resulting by-election in his parliamentary constituency of Clacton, citing the opportunity “to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment.”
The shock announcement comes after Farage faced increasing scrutiny over undeclared gifts he received in the run-up to the 2024 general election, when he was elected to the House of Commons for the first time. That includes £5 million ($6.7 million) from Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne, now the subject of a probe by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg.
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