Dashboard/Nigel Farage/ITV News interview on resigning as MP to fight a Clacton by-election, the standards investigation and the £5m gift
Interview · 8 Jul 2026
ITV News interview on resigning as MP to fight a Clacton by-election, the standards investigation and the £5m gift
Video: YouTube: ITV News (official channel). Retrieved 9 Oct 2026.
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Only 8 rated questions; a transcript needs 15 for a number. Claims that held up: 72% of 9 checked (Bluff 13.9 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.
- Official title
- We grill Nigel Farage on why he's calling a by-election - YouTube
- Speaker
- Nigel Farage (Leader of Reform UK; resigned as MP for Clacton to fight a by-election)
- Date delivered
- 8 Jul 2026
- Where
- Publisher
- YouTube: ITV News (official channel)
- Page
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9lDJ3IMr4
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-09T14:11:21+00:00
- SHA-256 of raw file
- f2072ba032e0002616c4f2d7b75aaca679f5f83b2efdfd0ca423f5b6e4496d9d
- Licence
- Standard YouTube licence; transcript from captions, quoted for review
- Note on record
- Transcript from the video's captions, fetched on 2026-10-09; not an official record. Captions do not say who is speaking: Polifiles assigned each turn by reading the captions, without checking the audio. ITV News' upload of a News at Ten segment (about 10 minutes). The opening report from Clacton (with clips of the interview and of voters) and a correspondent's explainer on the £5m gift (with an older clip of Nigel Farage) are left out; the item is the longer cut of the interview that follows, from the first question to his last answer. The interviewer is named from the report's sign-off in the captions ("Carl Den News at 10", that is Carl Dinnen), who introduces the interview as his own ("Today I asked him why"). One speaker change is assigned by meaning, not by the '>>' mark: the mark falls after "The" in his answer "The standards process can do what it wants." Trimmed: starts at "Um, first of all, Nigel, why are you doing this now"; ends at "which means I'll never have to worry about it.".
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