The former Brexit Party and UKIP chief will also take over the leadership of Reform UK, promising to stay in post for five years.
Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate in Clacton, Essex, for Reform UK in the general election on 4 July. Last week, he ruled out putting himself forward, instead promising to help what was Richard Tice's party as it campaigned across the country. But speaking at a news conference on Monday, Mr Farage announced the U-turn, and also confirmed he would take over from Mr Tice as leader of Reform for at least the next five years.
'A vote for anyone who's not a Conservative candidate is just a vote to put Keir Starmer in Number 10.' But the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper, accused the Tories of 'already becoming the mirror image of Nigel Farage's Reform', and said Mr Sunak's 'constant pandering' to the party had 'horrified former lifelong Conservative voters in the centre ground'.
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