When Nigel Farage arrived in Clacton to launch his marketing campaign to turn out to be the Essex constituency’s new MP, he was greeted with an adoring crowd – and a milkshake within the face. However what occurred when the Farage followers and cameras went residence? Will Clacton’s residents actually give Farage a Westminster seat on his eighth try?
Esther Addley, the Guardian’s senior information author, has been visiting the city because the Reform UK chief introduced his candidacy to seek out out why he feels his model of populism might discover a residence there. She spoke to individuals who felt he was divisive and needed him gone, whereas others felt he understood them and their worries in a manner that different politicians didn’t.
Helen Pidd hears how immigration was a well-liked purpose given for the issues that individuals noticed round them in Clacton, which has areas of actual deprivation. But, Esther factors out, that is even though the constituency has a low degree of immigration and is overwhelmingly white. And, says one farmer, the necessity for extra migrant staff is inflicting actual issues for agriculture in rural elements of the constituency.
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