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Is this a good day or a bad day for Nigel Farage?

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The Clacton by-election has been unorthodox from the start – and results day has been no different, with winning candidate Nigel Farage choosing not to turn up to the result of a contest he himself triggered. Not only that - I got up this morning anticipating being in the audience, on your behalf, for a Farage victory speech, here in Clacton, and then doing an interview him afterwards. Neither of those things have happened.
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Chris Mason: What his first week in power tells us about Andy Burnham

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"We are on borrowed time if we don't get a move on," Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister who is back in the cabinet this week as housing secretary, told the BBC's Today programme on Friday. It has been quite the week at Westminster. Sir Keir Starmer's departure as prime minister on Monday seems rather a while ago. The fledgling Burnham administration has been seeking to find its feet and make a decent first impression at the same time, as many try to do in the first days in a job.
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Shapps blocked from standing again for the Conservatives

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Follow Shapps blocked from standing again for the Conservatives Chris Mason - Political editor Thu, July 23, 2026 at 1:14 PM UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has told the BBC she leads "a brand new party full of new people" - after it emerged in the Spectator that the former cabinet minister and Tory party chairman Sir Grant Shapps has been rejected as a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate.
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