In The Room | Count Binface vs Farage: Flakes, Ferraris and the Clacton by-election

With the Clacton by-election just days away, In The Room welcomes perhaps Nigel Farage’s most unusual opponent: Count Binface.

Nigel Farage and Count Binface are the main contenders in Thursday’s Clacton by-election

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed like a dustbin

For Nigel Farage, success brings new pressures and a showdown with Count Binface  AP News

Set in motion by Farage amid a probe into his finances, the election may backfire as all of the major political parties denounced it as a stunt.

Just days before the Clacton by-election takes place, a message has appeared in the skies for those in the area who may still be unsure who to give their vote to.

Binface, who has run against prime ministers past and present, was the first to throw his bucket in the ring when Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage abruptly quit Parliament.

The by-election has a record number of candidates standing despite being called just a few weeks ago

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 10, 2026 1:24pm Updated August 10, 2026 1:25pm Count Binface crossed the final frontier for his latest election stunt (Picture: Count Binface) Nigel Farage’s top opponent in the Clacton by-election Count Binface has kicked off the week of the vote with a very on-b

Highlights from the election platforms of perennial British joke candidate Count Binface  Toronto Star

Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a garbage can on his head.

A comedian dressed as a trash can is vying for Nigel Farage's seat in Parliament. Count Binface is Oxford-educated Jon Harvey, whose costumed character has become a fixture in U.K. politics.

Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a garbage can on his head.

Discrepancies have been found between final voter figures and on-site tallies from the June 3 local elections, data acquired by a lawmaker showed Monday, amid a widening probe into irregularities surrounding the elections. The discrepancies were found in 1,971 neighborhoods out of the total 3,558 across the nation for

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Plane spends 30 minutes off the Essex coast marking out shape of a bin in apparent tribute to Nigel Farage’s rival A pilot has traced the shape of a bin with their flight path near Clacton before Count Binface challenges Nigel Farage in a byelection on Thursday. The light aircraft spent around half an hour between 2,10

Farage v Binface is the warm-up. His real showdown will be with Kemi  The Times

The boycott by major parties has opened the door to a host of by-election hopefuls. Here's who's on the metre-long ballot paper...

The Tories are not standing in next week's election, triggered by Nigel Farage's resignation.