The Reform UK leader resigned as the MP for Clacton at the start of July and forced a byelection

Back to Clacton, and Sarah Elizabeth Cox, who lives in the constituency, has written a good article for the Guardian about what the byelection has been like for residents.

Here is an extract.

Nobody wanted a byelection. For the many people struggling here, there is little energy for another awful circus. Clacton didn’t need yet more focus on Farage, Farage, Farage, while the area’s entrenched and complex problems continue to be ignored by him and by the government …

Yet in shops, the gym, pubs, on the beach, in the street, at the park, at nursery drop off, I’ve not overheard a single conversation about any of it, unless it was between a reporter and a local. Not one. The leaflets started getting left in the hallway, unread. Few of my family or neighbours plan to vote. We’re angry at him, but we are also bored, and exhausted.