Nigel Farage dropped out of the British election, but is now running after all. He is also returning as leader of the Reform Party.
Right-wing politician Farage announced his decision at a press conference in London just 11 days after saying that the election on July 4 was "not the right time" to run.
The Brexit figurehead and former leader of UKIP takes over the leadership of the Reform Party, a post he left in 2021.
He will run as a candidate in Clacton in southeastern England, the same constituency where UKIP won its only parliamentary seat in 2015. He calls this year's election campaign "the most tedious and most miserable we've ever been through".
With Farage as a candidate, the Reform Party is expected to take more votes from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party (Tories) than from the opposition Labour party, which is leading in the polls. But that doesn't bother Farage.
Sunak commented earlier in the day on the rumor of Farage's return to the election with:
Immediately after Farage's press conference, Sky News and Yougov published a large voter barometer where Labour is predicted to win 422 seats in parliament and a majority of 194 seats. Both figures are larger than any party has had since 1924. The barometer is an analysis of a survey of over 20,000 British citizens.
