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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2024 11:53:03 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2024 11:58:24 GMT
Nigel Farage is set to win in his constituency of Clacton, Essex, according to fresh predictions from pollster Ipsos.
The projections show Mr Farage at 52 per cent, far ahead of the next candidate, Labour’s Jovan Owusu-Nepaul at 24 per cent.
The model is the first research of its kind to be carried out entirely after Mr Farage announced that he would return to Reform UK as party leader, and run for candidate. Tory defector Lee Anderson is also estimated to hold his seat in Ashfield.
Labour appears to have given up the fight against Nigel Farage’s bid to become the MP for Clacton.
The party has reportedly ‘seconded’ its candidate from the seaside constituency in Essex to campaign in the West Midlands, suggesting Labour has conceded defeat to the Reform UK leader before polling day.
It comes after the Labour candidate for the seat, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, went viral on social media, being dubbed “the best dressed candidate in living memory”. He was also named by anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain as the candidate in the strongest position to stop Mr Farage’s bid to become an MP for the first time.
ut a campaign source told The Guardian Labour officials were “furious with him getting more retweets than Keir Starmer”, believing him to be distracting from the Labour leader’s campaign.
And, in a letter to Labour’s general secretary David Evans and seen by the newspaper, Mr Owusu-Nepaul’s election agent Martin Suker said: “Jovan was told [by an official] to never come back to Clacton, and yesterday, was instructed to move to the West Midlands region.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 27, 2024 17:00:57 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2024 1:22:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2024 6:08:57 GMT
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