Nigel Farage rules out Newark by-election bid
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has ruled out running for Parliament in the by-election triggered by the resignation of disgraced former Tory MP Partrick Mercer.
Mr Farage said he did not want to do anything that would distract from the party’s campaign for next month’s European elections, where he predicted Ukip would cause an “earthquake in British politics”.
He told the BBC: “I don’t want to do anything that deflects from the European election campaign, so I am not going to stand in this by-election.
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