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When Nigel Farage made a screeching U-turn and announced his eighth bid to be elected to Parliament, he does not seem to have spent long pondering which lucky constituency to thrust himself on.
It is the seat which gave Ukip its only elected MP, Douglas Carswell, so there is form. But Carswell had originally won election as a Tory, and Ukip was anyway a single-issue party with that issue very much top of the Essex coastal agenda — Clacton voted for Leave by over 70 per cent.
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