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CYNICAL Nigel Farage revealed yesterday that he hopes to drag a by-election campaign sparked by the death of veteran Labour MP Michael Meacher into a divisive immigration row.
The Ukip leader signalled his intention to seize on what he called “rapid demographic change” in the Oldham West and Royton poll on December 3.
Mr Farage vowed to target Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to win over “patriotic, old Labour, working-class voters.”
By-election poll puts Starmer's future on a knife-edge
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
