Enjoy (video, 3:09). Nigel’s main challenger at the Clacton by-election on 13 August is Count Binface, an “independent space warrior” who wears a bin-shaped helmet. Thirty-four candidates are standing, breaking the record of 26 set at the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election. The ballot paper is almost a metre long.

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