How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history

How Nigel Farage led to the longest ballot in British election history

Is the Clacton byelection one of the strangest in British political history?

None of the main parties are taking part, a man with a bin on his head is the best-known candidate after the incumbent, Nigel Farage, and it has so many candidates that the ballot paper is almost a metre long – so it must come pretty close.

But what does this say about the state of British politics? Guardian journalist Sarah Ann Harris takes a look.

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