Nigel Farage announced the unusual move in a lengthy speech yesterday (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Nigel Farage’s ‘people versus the establishment’ by-election in Clacton will be paid for with taxpayers’ cash, officials have confirmed. The Reform leader is set to go head-to-head with Count Binface and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party after resigning from his seat yesterday. None of the major parties are fielding candidates for a race they describe as a ‘stunt’ and a ‘vanity project’, with the Green Party pulling out late last night after initially saying it would be standing. In a post on X yesterday, Farage wrote that Reform UK had offered to cover the cost of the by-election, saying: ‘Given that we asked for this by-election in the first place, it’s only right that we pay f