{"id":334912,"date":"2026-08-14T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-ally-nigel-farage-wins-special-election-to-return-to-uk-parliament.html"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:34:11","slug":"trump-ally-nigel-farage-wins-special-election-to-return-to-uk-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-ally-nigel-farage-wins-special-election-to-return-to-uk-parliament.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump ally Nigel Farage wins special election to return to UK parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"MainContent\">\n<header class=\"ArticleHeader-articleHeader\" id=\"main-article-header\"><span>WATCH LIVE<\/span><\/header>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage, leader of Britain&#8217;s right-wing Reform UK party, has won re-election to parliament in a vote he triggered himself last month by stepping down amid controversy over his finances.<\/p>\n<p>Farage, who has previously been praised by U.S. President Donald Trump and was a figurehead in the U.K. campaign to leave the European Union, faces a parliamentary <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">investigation<\/a> over failure to declare a \u00a35 million ($6.7 million) donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor ahead of his 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>The probe was suspended following his resignation on July 7, and was <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">relisted<\/a> as active on Friday following the election result. Farage has said the gift was a personal gift intended to contribute to his security costs.<\/p>\n<p>Reform UK faces a police investigation related to &#8220;impermissible&#8221; party donations, the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">BBC reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream parties said they would boycott standing in the byelection after Farage sought to position it as a referendum on his fight against &#8220;the establishment.&#8221; That meant his main opponent was costumed, serial candidate &#8220;Count Binface,&#8221; who came second. <\/p>\n<p>Farage did not attend the vote count overnight, instead speaking with supporters at an event elsewhere in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>The Essex seat of Clacton has a track record of backing Farage&#8217;s political parties. The UK Independence Party&#8217;s won its first election there in 2014, when it was led by Farage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m damned if I&#8217;m going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all I&#8217;ve tried to fight for&#8230; and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies,&#8221; he told a crowd. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/14\/nigel-farage-reform-uk-parliament-re-election.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH LIVE Nigel Farage, leader of Britain&#8217;s right-wing Reform UK party, has won re-election to parliament in a vote he triggered himself last month by stepping down amid controversy over his finances. Farage, who has previously been praised by U.S. President Donald Trump and was a figurehead in the U.K. campaign to leave the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-334912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}