Nigel Farage resigns to stand in ‘people vs establishment’ byelection – The Latest

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  Nigel Farage is standing down essentially to say, look, I've got these standards inquiries into me.

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  I think they should be put to the voters of Clacton-on-Sea and not really be decided by Parliament.

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  Here we go.

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  Today, I will resign as a member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election.

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  From the Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

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  So at midday, we had the announcement that Nigel Farage would be holding

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  a previously unannounced press conference at 2pm to announce the future of his public life.

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  Kieran Stacey, our policy editor, that sent the whole of Westminster and beyond into a state of red alert.

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  It took him about 15 minutes to get to the nub of what he wanted to announce,

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  which is that he is standing down as an MP in Clacton-on-Sea to trigger a by-election that he will run in.

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  What is the political logic here?

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  Well, what's going on is this is a ruse that has been used by politicians before,

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  successfully and unsuccessfully, I should say.

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  When a politician, an MP, is particularly unhappy about the state of affairs, one thing or another,

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