Chris Mason: It's far from certain whether by-election will strengthen Farage

Nigel Farage's decision to trigger a by-election in his seat of Clacton in Essex took a bizarre twist this morning, when a man who dresses up as a bin and tells the world he lives on the planet Sigma IX began his interview with the BBC.

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