"It's Reform UK, having given up the seat, it's their prerogative to choose the date. They said yesterday they'd select a date of August the 6th, although there's some suggestion that under parliamentary process it might end up having to be August the 13th. No change, though, to the sense that it's just going to be Nigel Farage against a handful of joke candidates. Another possible difficulty looming for one of Reform UK's leading figures, by the way, this is Robert Jenrick, and it concerns the period when he was still in the Conservative Party, indeed running to lead the Conservative Party in 2024. Police are investigating a donation that was given to his campaign for that job. He received £100,000 in donations from a British businessman called Philip Ulman. The Electoral Commission, the watchdog, had been investigating claims that almost £40,000 of that money actually came from an American business whose founder has pleaded guilty to fraud. That matters because foreign donations to British politicians are banned under electoral law. That's now been passed to the Met. A spokesman for Mr Jenrick said the suggestion that he had knowingly accepted impermissible donations was an untrue, politically motivated smear put about years later by the Conservatives."