Farage resigns, declaring 'enough is enough'

When I became an MP, Parliament said, yes, we will help you with security.But almost unbelievably, just a couple of days after the murder of Charlie Kirk, 70 % of that security funding was withdrawn.I am going to need security for the rest of my life.And I cannot even tell you how grateful I am to Christopher Harbourne, because now I will never, ever need to worry about whether I've got the resource.

Well, the new attack from the media is that somehow I am a crook.I am dishonest.Yet another reason to hate me.Commentators over the weekend have said, oh, look at the interviews Nigel's doing.He's not himself.He's getting angry.

Well, here's why.For some reason last week, the editor of the Times newspaper decided to publish a picture of where my daughter lives.There is no public interest in my daughter whatsoever.She is not involved in current affairs, doesn't seek to be involved in current affairs and has never been used by me once at any point in my political career.No photographs on election addresses or anything like that.I've always done my absolute best to protect the privacy and safety of my family.

By publishing that photograph, the editor of the Times has directly threatened her security.I wonder what happened to the Leveson inquiry of years ago, an inquiry that sought to bring better balance between what the press could do and families of those in public life.Worse still, she now has broadcasters haranguing her.

Sky News were one of them, and when I questioned them on it, they willfully and deliberately lied and said on their channel that they hadn't contacted the family.

Well, let me be clear.I will not tolerate intimidation of my family.I will not tolerate the location of where they live being revealed.I will not tolerate any of my family being endangered because of what I choose to do in public life.So yes, you can ask, am I angry?But I've never been angrier in my life.

I'm also pretty upset with the behaviour of this Labour government.They began in 2025 and then tried again into 2026 to cancel elections for taxpayers.And to do so on a vast and epic scale, albeit with the connivance of the Conservative Party.

Why?Well, of course, fear of reform.I'm proud of the fact that we fought a legal action that got nearly five million council tax voters the right to go out on May 7th and give their view.

Now, of course, they want to reduce the voting age down to 16.Again, they think that will help damage reform.And just a couple of weeks ago, Following the Makerfield by -election, they've changed the voting rules for the Manchester Mayoral by -election.They've gone away from first -past -the -post, again for fear that reform might win.And now they've come after our money.Now, to be clear, in the early days after the last general election, it was the huge increase in our membership at £25 a time that actually got us into a position where we could build a proper party.

Over the last year, Some big donors have been attracted to us.

Extraordinary.These are men who've gone off as entrepreneurs around the world and succeeded.The sort of people we used to admire over centuries.Now government ministers refer to them in Parliament as malign actors.And so they keep changing all the rules again and again just to stop reform.Frankly, it is like living in a communist country.

I could never have believed such a thing would happen here.Ignore the fact, of course, that over decades peerages have been given to donors and that Labour's donors, in the run -up to the 2024 general election, now seem to have been awarded the most extraordinary government contracts.Perhaps Dominic Cummings was right last year when he said, Whitehall will break the law to stop reform winning power.And we've been subject in the last few months to the use of illegally obtained information, firm evidence of computer hacking, and now leaks from government agencies.And this is all, of course, a great distraction, because we're about to get a Prime Minister who's coming in with no mandate whatsoever.He didn't even stand on the 2024 manifesto.

This country needs a general election, even if Labour, the Conservatives and the media don't want it.And whilst this pylon against reform happens, the boats continue to cross the English Channel.Our fractured defences make us look weaker and weaker against what I think is now an increasingly dangerous Vladimir Putin.Business confidence is the lowest it's now been for 16 years and I speak to you from a capital city where men can't wear watches and women can't wear jewellery on the street.

Britain is broken and the public know it and we need change.

Now the issue with my daughter was the final straw.Enough is enough.And I thought over the weekend, what shall I do?I could go out and try and make some real big money.I could go to the USA, where I've got plenty of offers.And then I thought, why should I be judged today or in history in the future by Sky News and their ilk?

Why should they be the people that decide my fate when, as I repeat, I've done nothing wrong?I've thought about it hard and I've decided today, today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton -on -Sea, thereby forcing a by -election, which should happen, I hope, in short order.

No, I've decided that the people of Clapton should be the judges of my actions.

This will be a people versus the establishment by -election.

It's a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment, to frankly tell them where to go.And that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by -election.I will fight to win.I will fight to continue the political revolution that reform has started.And I would say this to you, the voters of Clacton, if I win, you win.Because if I lose, they win and we will never, with the two old parties, get the type of fundamental change that we need to fix broken Britain.

Thank you.