Are these the kind of people you want running services?

NIGEL Farage is hoping for a major upset in the Runcorn by-election with a candidate who used to be a magistrate.

- BY ASHLEY COWBURN and SOPHIE HUSKISSON

But ex-Tory councillor Sarah Pochin came under fire for sympathetically telling a drink driver “it is what it is”.

Former Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns is also running for Farage’s Reform UK party. She was filmed giving protesters the middle finger as she arrived in Downing Street for Boris Johnson's resignation speech in 2022.