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A minister said he “wouldn’t bother voting” if he lived in Clacton, where a by-election triggered by Nigel Farage’s resignation will take place.

Sir Chris Bryant was asked why Labour would not offer voters in the constituency a democratic chance and whether parties boycotting the vote were “indulging in petty politics” rather than serving the public.

He told BBC Breakfast that he was “not going to participate” in “a farce without any jokes in it that Nigel Farage is playing out these next few weeks”.

Asked whether he would throw his support behind Count Binface, he said: “Listen, if I were living in Clacton, I wouldn’t bother voting, and that’s not something I would normally say.

“But this is, as I say, it’s the worst kind of farce. It’s a farce that hasn’t got any jokes in it at all.”