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Before the general election, Mr Farage said his long-term goal was to run for prime minister in 2029. He said: “That is our ambition. And we believe it is achievable.”
For that to happen, the Starmer government would need to collapse before 2028, and well before the current prime minister’s five years in office have to come to an end in 2029.
In November 2016, after becoming president-elect, Trump publicly suggested, via Twitter post, that the UK government name Farage as British ambassador to the United States. Trump's expression of a preference for a foreign nation's ambassador was "a startling break with diplomatic protocol" that was unprecedented in recent US history. [ 77 ]
The story of how he snatched the Brexit Party name from the original owner, Catherine Blaiklock, and she subsequently got it back is an allegory of why the unstoppable veneer of Farage and Reform ...
He left the Conservatives in 1992 in protest at Prime Minister John Major's government's signing of the Treaty on European Union at Maastricht. [37] [38] In 1992, Farage joined the Anti-Federalist League. [39] In 1993, he was a founding member of UKIP. [40] In 1994, Farage asked Enoch Powell to endorse UKIP; Powell declined. [41]
Following Farage's resignation his party chairman, Richard Tice, became leader. [5] [6] Tice remained as leader until 3 June 2024 when he relinquished the position back to Farage who had announced his intention to stand as a candidate for MP in Clacton at the 2024 general election. [6] Tice would later become deputy leader in July 2024.
As if by magic, when Farage was on stage the party's membership passed 170,000, and two hours later the party told me they had added another 1,000. Nigel Farage claims Reform can win power - but ...
In one chapter, Farage writes of his being hit by a car in 1985, his suffering from testicular cancer the year after, and his plane crash while campaigning in the 2010 general election. He uses these three near-death experiences to state his opinions on the National Health Service , saying that he has seen "the best and worst" of it.