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Why Nigel Farage’s return to the fray matters
Chris Mason
Political editor
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Image caption: Nigel Farage following a press conference in Dover on Tuesday Nigel Farage is one of the most influential politicians of our time. Maybe you love him, maybe you really don’t.
Nigel Farage has made it his life’s work to disrupt, delight, dismay, horrify, and he reckons he is not done yet.
We reporters squeezed into an upstairs room of the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club, overlooking the English Channel.
He had already announced that he wouldn’t try to win a seat in Parliament himself at this election, prompting a reporter from The Sun to tease him that he was a chicken.
He argued that from the bitter experience of more than half a dozen defeats, he had little chance of success without working a seat for months in advance.
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Good morning
Francesca Gillett
Live reporter
It’s now been a week since the election was called, and today the campaigns continue.
Rishi Sunak is heading to the South West, where he will likely be wanting to push the Tories’ new plan, announced today, to axe some degrees and instead increase the number of apprenticeships.
Over in the Labour camp, they’re in the West Midlands and planning to focus on the NHS, with a pledge to meet a key target of 18-week waits for treatment within five years.
And the Liberal Democrats are launching their campaign in Wales, with a focus on the farming industry. We’ll be covering it all and more.
