ALERT: The boycott of the rest of the parties humiliates Farage by facing the comic candidate Count Garbage Can alone
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International observers are closely monitoring the latest developments as new information continues to emerge.
When less than a month ago the former mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, won the Makerfield by-election and became the de facto Labor politician who was going to end up taking over from the current prime minister, Keir Starmer, he shared the stage with a strange character who caught the attention of many international media that had closely followed those elections. He was a kind of tin superhero, with his head covered by a huge helmet that was actually a garbage can. He calls himself Count Binface (Count Binface, in the original English), and he is a regular at British elections who competed in his day, before against Burnham, against other candidates such as former prime ministers, Theresa May, Boris Johnson or Rishi Sunak.Continue reading
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Source: This article was originally published by Internacional en EL PAÍS and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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