Can UK's hard-right Farage bin financial probe with by-election win?
- Nigel Farage – leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party – will be fighting for his parliamentary seat on Thursday, going head to head with parody candidate Count Binface in snap polls.
- The by-election was called after Farage resigned amid a probe into his finances.
- But the surprise move threatens to backfire as none of the major political parties has fielded a candidate.
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- Nigel Farage – leader of the anti-immigration Reform UK party – will be fighting for his parliamentary seat on Thursday, going head to head with parody candidate Count Binface in snap polls.
- The by-election was called after Farage resigned amid a probe into his finances.
- But the surprise move threatens to backfire as none of the major political parties has fielded a candidate.
Sources: RFI