Nigel Farage has had a tricky summer. With his party down in the polls and beset by scandal, it hasn’t been ideal preparation for Thursday’s by-election. Ahead of it, we headed down to the seaside in Essex to see how locals are feeling about the vote, before asking one of our politicos if the whole stunt has actually backfired.

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Has Farage’s Clacton by-election backfired?

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Has Farage’s Clacton by-election backfired?