Nigel Farage to resign, run again for Parliament in 'people vs. the establishment' by-election

Nigel Farage, sandbagged by investigations and hounded by the press over financial gifts received in the run-up to his seating in Parliament, is hoping his voters will help him shake off the legal woes with a redo.

The leader of Reform U.K. is vacating his seat in the British Parliament amid yet another government investigation into unreported financial donations — only so he can immediately run for it again and prove he still has the mandate of voters. He announced his unorthodox decision in a Tuesday afternoon speech, maintaining that he has “done nothing wrong” but that “the establishment have now decided that they can’t beat us fairly, so they’ve chosen to use foul means.”