Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, has come out fighting in response to the intense scrutiny and revelations about his personal finances. He says he will resign his seat to fight a ‘people versus establishment’ by-election in Clacton and believes members of his constituency ‘should be the judges of my actions’. It is a clever move – perhaps the only move he could make – which gives him a chance to retake control of the political narrative. It also carries with it the obvious risk that the voters of Clacton may decide they’ve had enough of the circus surrounding their MP.In a much-trailed statement on his future in public life, Farage adopted a number of personas, sometimes defiant, threatening hellfire on his critics, and at other times playing the victim card. At one point, Farage portrayed himself as a victim of ‘the establishment’ which was out to get him because it could not beat him fairly and so is........

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