Nigel Farage has had a tricky summer. With his party down in the polls and beset by scandal, it hasn’t been ideal preparation for Thursday’s by-election. So Times Radio's Rosie Wright heads to the seaside in Essex to see how locals are feeling about the vote, before asking one of our politicos if the whole stunt has actually backfired.
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Guest: Josh Glancy, associate editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Rosie Wright, Times Radio breakfast show presenter.
Producers: Harry Stott.
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Clips: The Telegraph / Youtube, LBC, BBC, Whitehall Sources, Rupert Lowe / X.
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