Nigel Farage | |
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![]() Farage in 2018 | |
Leader of Reform UK[a] | |
Assumed office 3 June 2024 | |
Chairman | Richard Tice |
Deputy | David Bull Ben Habib |
Preceded by | Richard Tice |
In office 22 March 2019 – 6 March 2021 | |
Chairman | Richard Tice |
Preceded by | Catherine Blaiklock |
Succeeded by | Richard Tice |
Honorary President of Reform UK | |
In role 6 March 2021 – 3 June 2024 | |
Leader | Richard Tice |
Preceded by | Role established |
Succeeded by | Role abolished |
Leader of the UK Independence Party | |
Acting 5 October 2016 – 28 November 2016 | |
Chairman | Paul Oakden |
Preceded by | Diane James |
Succeeded by | Paul Nuttall |
In office 5 November 2010 – 16 September 2016 | |
Deputy | David Campbell Bannerman Christopher Monckton Paul Nuttall |
Chairman | Steve Crowther |
Preceded by | Jeffrey Titford (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Diane James |
In office 27 September 2006 – 27 November 2009 | |
Deputy | David Campbell Bannerman |
Chairman | John Whittaker Paul Nuttall |
Preceded by | Roger Knapman |
Succeeded by | The Lord Pearson of Rannoch |
President of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy[b] | |
In office 20 July 2004 – 1 July 2019 | |
Served with | Hanne Dahl Francesco Speroni David Borrelli |
Preceded by | Jens-Peter Bonde |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Chairman of the UK Independence Party | |
In office 1998 – 22 January 2000 | |
Leader | Michael Holmes |
Preceded by | Alan Sked |
Succeeded by | Mike Nattrass |
Member of the European Parliament for South East England | |
In office 10 June 1999 – 31 January 2020 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Nigel Paul Farage 3 April 1964 Farnborough, Kent, England |
Political party | Reform UK (2019–present) |
Other political affiliations |
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Spouses |
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Children | 4 |
Education | Dulwich College |
Occupation | Politician, broadcaster, media personality |
Signature | ![]() |
Website | www |
Nigel Paul Farage (/ˈfærɑːʒ/ FARR-ahzh;[c] born 3 April 1964)[3] is a British politician and broadcaster who has been the leader of Reform UK since June 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021.[d] He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009, and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union in 2020.
Farage has been a prominent Eurosceptic since the early 1990s; for over twenty years he campaigned for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (EU). He was a founding member of UKIP, having left the Conservative Party in 1992 after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty,[4][5] which furthered European integration and founded the EU. He was elected MEP for South East England at the 1999 European Parliament election, and in 2004 he became the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD).[e][6][7][8]
Farage won the 2006 UKIP leadership election, and led the party at the 2009 European Parliament election, when it won the second-most votes in the UK. He resigned as the leader in November 2009 to focus on contesting Buckingham at the 2010 general election, and came in third place. Farage returned as the leader of UKIP at the 2010 leadership election.[9] At the 2014 European Parliament election UKIP won the most seats, which was the first time when neither the Labour Party nor the Conservative Party had done so in a national election since the December 1910 general election, pressuring David Cameron to call the EU membership referendum in 2016.[10][11][12]
At the 2015 general election, UKIP secured over 3.8 million votes and 12.6 per cent of the total vote, replacing the Liberal Democrats as the third-most popular party, but secured only one seat. Farage announced his resignation when he did not win in South Thanet, but his resignation was rejected and he remained as leader.[13][14] After the successful EU membership referendum, Farage resigned as the leader of UKIP, but remained as an MEP;[15][16] he left UKIP in 2018.[f][1][17] He co-founded the Brexit Party - which subsequently became Reform UK - later that year.[18][19] Drawing support from those frustrated with the delayed implementation of Brexit by Theresa May's government, the Brexit Party won the most votes at the 2019 European Parliament election, becoming the largest single party in the European Parliament;[20][21] May announced her resignation days later, and was succeeded by Boris Johnson, whose government delivered Brexit in 2020. After the 2024 general election had been called, Farage returned to politics again in June 2024 by resuming the leadership of Reform UK and standing for the party in Clacton.[22]
From 2017 to 2020 he was the host of The Nigel Farage Show, a phone-in programme on the talk-radio station LBC.[23] In 2021 he became a presenter for GB News, and has hosted the shows The Political Correction and Farage.[24] In 2023 Farage competed in the twenty-third series of the reality television programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in third place. He has commented on and been involved with politics in the United States, being a friend of the former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Farage is known for his distinctive character and style, including his flamboyant personality,[25][26] fashion,[27][28][29][30] and social-media presence,[31][32][33][34] as well as his form of British right-wing populism.[35] He was ranked second in The Daily Telegraph's Top 100 most influential right-wingers poll in 2013, behind Cameron, and was also named "Briton of the Year" by The Times in 2014.[36][37] He was ranked first on the New Statesman's Right Power List in 2023, described as "the most influential person on the British right".[38]
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