{"id":225339,"date":"2026-07-18T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/uk-by-election-nigel-farage-faces-record-number-of-rivals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:49:02","slug":"uk-by-election-nigel-farage-faces-record-number-of-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/uk-by-election-nigel-farage-faces-record-number-of-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"UK by-election: Nigel Farage faces &#8216;record&#8217; number of rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh by-election has been called in the UK constituency of Clacton, after Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, resigned his seat to seek re-election. Farage had won the seat in 2024, securing 46% of the vote share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/07\/18\/uk-by-election-nigel-farage-faces-record-number-of-rivals\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh by-election has been called in the UK constituency of Clacton, after Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, resigned his seat to seek re-election. Farage had won the seat in 2024, securing 46% of the vote share. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}