Reform UK leader reveals he faces second inquiry over financial gifts but says he will fight byelection in Clacton UK politics live – latest updates Nigel Farage has announced he is to resign as the MP for Clacton to fight a byelection, revealing he is under a second investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog over undeclared gifts. The Reform UK leader said it was part of “sticking two fingers up at the establishment” and it would prove that the public wanted him to stay on as an MP