551. Will Farage’s Trumpian Resignation Stunt Backfire?
7/7/202648 min
Is Farage's shock by-election gamble a Trumpian trick to bury the scandal over his finances? Why has the Murdoch press finally turned on Britain's most protected politician? Can Andy Burnham beat the media machine that swallowed Keir Starmer?
Join Alastair and Mehdi Hasan as they answer all these questions and more in this week's edition of Question Time.
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:01
Nigel Farage, who rarely visits Clacton, thinks that what Clacton needs is a by-election. Beset by questions about where all his money comes from, losing his rag with reporters as he returns from the United States, and apparently with some of his own supporters losing faith in him, he clearly thinks he needs a new narrative. Is this a big, bold move to show he's the victim of an establishment stitch-up as he claims? Is it about trying to stop the investigation into his finances in Parliament? Or is it just Nigel Farage being Nigel Farage and getting us all talking about him? One thing is for sure, just as in recent weeks we were talking all the time about Makerfield, in the coming weeks it's gonna be Clacton.
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