LONDON (Reuters) – Nigel Farage, the politician who helped champion Britain’s departure from the European Union, said on Monday he would stand as a candidate in next month’s election.
Farage, 60, will stand in the parliamentary seat in Clacton, a resort town in eastern England that overwhelming voted for Brexit in the 2016 referendum.
(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; editing by David Milliken)
