Reform UK leader faces Count Binface in special election testing durability of far right

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : He had spent decades as one of Britain's most prominent Brexit campaigners, serving five terms as a member of the European Parliament before becoming a member of the House of Commons.
49% : In 2014, Conservative lawmaker Douglas Carswell defected to the U.K. Independence Party and won a subsequent special election, giving the anti-EU party its first elected member of Parliament.
47% : Two years later, 73% of voters in the constituency backed leaving the European Union in Britain's Brexit referendum, one of the strongest Leave votes in the country.
45% : In Clacton, his joke-driven campaign promises include a referendum on whether Pluto should regain its status as a planet and a tax on crime novels written by celebrities, But they also take aim at Farage, promising to spend more time in Clacton than in Washington, D.C., a jab at criticism that the Reform leader has spent too much time in the United States.

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