Ann Widdecombe: uncompromising politician who embraced TV fame

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Former Conservative minister, who later joined Reform UK and became an unlikely celebrity, was found dead at her Devon home on Thursday

On Wednesday, shortly after Nigel Farage announced he would stand down from his parliamentary seat in Clacton to trigger a byelection, Ann Widdecombe appeared by video link on Talk TV to praise his decision.

“This is a very decisive man,” Widdecombe told the interviewer, speaking with the same forthright conviction that had defined her controversial political career and more eccentric parliamentary afterlife. Widdecombe, formerly a Conservative, joined the Brexit party – which later became Reform UK – in 2019 and Farage, she said, had shown “the sort of decision taking that is needed in the leader of the country”.

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