Nigel Farage resigns as MP, triggers by-election in Clacton
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- Nigel Farage has resigned as a Member of Parliament for Clacton, triggering a by-election.
- He faces probes into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire and donations from an entrepreneur with a fraud conviction.
- Farage stated he has done nothing wrong and will fight to win the upcoming election.
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Nigel Farage, an ally of Donald Trump, is resigning as an MP and triggering a by-election in his Clacton seat due to ongoing probes into his finances.
“I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money,” Farage, a prominent ally of US President Donald Trump, said in a broadcast statement that did not take questions.
Farage faces a probe by parliament’s standards watchdog over a £5 million (US$6.7 million) gift from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire. Opposition lawmakers are seeking another investigation over donations from George Cottrell, an aristocratic crypto-gambling entrepreneur who served a prison sentence for fraud in the US.
The probes could have led to Farage being suspended or expelled from parliament. He will pre-empt that process by triggering an election for his Clacton seat in eastern England.
“The people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions,” he said. “This will be a people-versus-the-establishment by-election.
“I will fight to win.”
Worauf zu achten ist
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Farage will contest the Clacton by-election.
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The by-election will be highly contested.
Wahrscheinlich · Innerhalb von Wochen
Offene Fragen
- Will Farage win the by-election?
- What will be the outcome of the probes?
