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A minister has said he “won’t bother voting” if he lived in Clacton, where the by-election triggered by Nigel Farage’s resignation is due to take place.

Sir Chris Bryant was asked why Labor was not offering voters in his constituency a democratic chance and whether parties boycotting the vote were “indulging in petty politics” rather than serving the public.

He told BBC Breakfast that he “won’t be involved in a comedy that Nigel Farage is doing in the next few weeks that doesn’t have any jokes in it”.

Asked if he would back Count Binface, he said: “Listen, if I lived in Clacton I wouldn’t bother voting and that’s not something I would normally say.

“But this, as I said, is the worst kind of comedy. It’s nonsense without any jokes in it.”