{"id":77031,"date":"2026-08-14T08:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77031\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:27:38","slug":"labour-right-to-not-stand-in-farce-clacton-by-election-as-farage-returns-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/77031\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour &#8216;right&#8217; to not stand in &#8216;farce&#8217; Clacton by-election as Farage returns to parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Labour &#039;right&#039; to not stand in &#039;farce&#039; Clacton by-election as Farage returns to parliament\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kp9tQtvl32U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLabour &#8216;right&#8217; to not stand in &#8216;farce&#8217; Clacton by-election as Farage returns to parliament<br \/>\n<br \/>\nChair of the Labour Party Bridget Phillipson has told Sky News that her party was right to not stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was triggered by the Reform UK leader&#8217;s resignation in July in protest at a parliamentary investigation into a \u00a35m &#8220;gift&#8221; he received.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage won with 22,239 votes, which was 62.82% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Clacton by-election was boycotted by all the other major parties.<\/p>\n<p>Politics latest: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-andy-burnham-labour-kemi-badenoch-tories-nigel-farage-reform-12593360?postid=12224221#liveblog-body<\/p>\n<p>#skynews #uk #nigelfarage <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour &#8216;right&#8217; to not stand in &#8216;farce&#8217; Clacton by-election as Farage returns to parliament Chair of the Labour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[11927,26484,49975,724,264,326,361,296,590,279],"class_list":["post-77031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-bridget-phillipson","tag-by-election","tag-clacton","tag-farage","tag-labour","tag-nigel-farage","tag-reform","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-news-live","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117092957781468767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}