IDS, Churchill, Mandelson, Salmond and Farage return

UKIP's leader carried out his promise to stand down if he failed to win his seat at the general election.

But in a Daily Politics film, Adam Fleming looks at how Nigel Farage was not the first politician to make a quick comeback to the political stage, after standing down

The list is made up of Iain Duncan Smith, Winston Churchill, Peter Mandelson, Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage.

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