Farage to face Count Binface in self-triggered byelection amid funding probe

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British anti-immigrant politician Nigel Farage faces the embarrassing prospect of going head-to-head with perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a by-election he called himself. The shock announcement came as Farage is the subject of a parliamentary probe over the non-disclosure of a £5 million donation from Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali tells us more.