Nigel Paul Farage born 3 April 1964 is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party (renamed Reform UK in 2021) from 2019 to 2021.
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He was the host of The Nigel Farage Show, a radio phone-in on the Global-owned talk radio station LBC, from 2017 to 2020. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a presenter for GB News.
Since the early 1990s, Farage has been a prominent Eurosceptic and advocated for the UK to leave the European Union. After leaving the Conservative Party in 1992 following the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty, which accelerated European integration and established the European Union, Farage became a founding member of UKIP.
In the 1999 European Parliament election, he was chosen as MEP for South East England after unsuccessfully running in the European and Westminster legislative elections starting in 1994. In the elections for the European Parliament held in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019, he was re-elected.
He served as the president of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) in the European Parliament, where he was well known for his speeches and for being an outspoken opponent of the euro.