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Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is an English politician who has served as leader of Reform UK since 3 June 2024, a change which occurred during the 2024 general election, at which he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Clacton in Essex. He announced his resignation as an MP on 7 July 2026, but successfully contested the resulting by-election (see Reform UK financial allegations).
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He [Batten] doesn't have the support of the party to do this. Even a poll of party members shows that his issues are very low down on our list of priorities, so I'm going to fight, try and save it [Ukip], but if it continues in this direction, electorally it is finished.
I was asked last week if UKIP would have been necessary if Mrs Thatcher had not been overthrown before the Maastricht treaty. Had she still been in power in 1992 there would have been a referendum on that treaty, and the need for UKIP would probably never have arisen.
They have ignored what was said in that Brexit referendum and so now a bigger question emerges as to how we are going to change politics in this country.
[Asked for the leader he held in the greatest respect] As an operator, but not as a human being, I would say [Vladimir] Putin.
Do I find a seat to try get myself into parliament or do I serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the United Kingdom supporting 600 candidates, and I've decided the latter course is the right one.
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.
Well, I may not necessarily be the best advocate for [monogamous] heterosexuality and or stable marriage, having been divorced twice. But do I think family matters.
I cannot put up with the double standards of the BBC about what I'm alleged to have said 49 years ago and what you were putting out on mainstream content.
I did 23 nights in that jungle. And it changed me. I've come out a completely different person [...] Because I am not afraid of anything now.
[EU leaders] are not undemocratic. They are anti-democratic. These are very bad and dangerous people. They are the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945.
[D]o I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?
When I said yes to these debates I thought you would honestly make the pro-EU case. By saying 7% of our laws are made in Brussels, you are wilfully lying to the British people about the extent to which we have given control of our country and our democracy and I am really shocked and surprised you would do that.
This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life. I have tried and failed in the past to get security funded by the Home Office and I don’t think the state will ever help me.I’m very much on my own and will be for the rest of my life, and I have to face up to that grim reality. Christopher is an ardent supporter who is deeply concerned for my safety.
One of the most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me and, knowing that I was Jewish, saying Hitler was right and 'gas 'em', and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss', you know, kind of imitating the sound of escaping gas.That's my abiding memory of him, and that sort of verbal abuse happened quite consistently over the year that we were together in the same class.
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