I asked Clacton voters about Nigel Farage's by-election

A burned-out van sits abandoned on a Clacton street, its charred shell a bleak welcome to the seaside town Nigel Farage now wants to represent all over again. It is, some locals mutter, a fitting symbol of a Britain many here feel has been left to rot, and it's exactly the sort of decay the Reform UK leader has built his career railing against. On a windswept seafront in Clacton, opinion on Nigel Farage seems to be as changeable as the Essex weather. The Reform UK leader has stunned Westminster by triggering a by-election in his own constituency, and standing in it himself. But is he a self-serving chancer as his rivals allege, or the only man willing to take on the establishment? The answer came as a surprise. Clacton, it turns out, is bitterly divided. Read Daily Express: https://www.express.co.uk Like Daily Express on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyExpress Follow Daily Express on X: https://x.com/Daily_Express Follow Daily Express on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailyexpress/ #DailyExpress #News #nigelfarage #reformuk #clacton #ukelection #byelection #ukpolitics