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Clacton activists fear Labour is throwing the constituency to Farage
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking on top of a double decker bus at the Mercure Maidstone Great Danes Hotel in Maidstone Kent, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 24, 2024
“At local level, it’s different."
LABOUR activists in Clacton fear that the party is throwing the election in their constituency in order to facilitate the return of Nigel Farage to Parliament.
They claim that their imposed candidate, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, has been told to campaign elsewhere in the country rather than in the town he seeks to represent.
One Clacton Labour campaigner, speaking anonymously for fear of party reprisals, told the Star: “Labour want Farage to win here because he could split the Tories.
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