Brian Melley
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Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage wins byelection against Count Binface - National | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce. Farage, leader of the anti-immigration Reform U.K. party who some see as a possible next prime minister, abruptly quit his seat in July amid an investigation into whether he failed to report a 5 million pound ($6.7 million) gift from an overseas crypto billionaire. He denied wrongdoi
Count Binface continues U.K. election run as ‘intergalactic space warrior’ - National | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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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. Count Binface, a self-described intergalactic space warrior, has landed in the center of the U.K.’s political universe ahead of a special election Thursday that was derided as a farce long before the ballot was packed with nearly three dozen candidates — many from the silly end of the spectrum. Binface, who has run against prime ministers past and present, was
Former politician Ann Widdecombe killed in ‘targeted attack’: U.K. police - National | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Former politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe was killed in a “targeted attack,” though the motivation is still under investigation, British counterterror police said Tuesday. A 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and terror crimes remains in custody on an extended detention warrant under the Terrorism Act that allows police to question him for up to another week. “It is clear that this was a targeted attack,” Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing
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