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A sitting Member of Parliament resigned his own seat to force a public vote on his conduct, won that vote, and stepped back into a live parliamentary investigation within hours.
That process is called a by-election: a contest held to fill a single vacant seat outside a general election.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, captured 22,239 votes in Clacton on Friday to secure his return to Westminster, while the standards inquiry into an undeclared £5 million payment resumed the same day.
The investigation concerns a gift of £5 million, roughly $6.75 million, from a billionaire cryptocurrency investor. Farage has acknowledged receiving the money but says he did nothing wrong by not declaring it.
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