Politics
Nigel Farage Is Back, Putting His Weight Behind a No-Deal Divorce
His Brexit Party is polling in first place for the U.K. seats in this month’s European Parliament elections.
Farage campaigning in Hartlepool on May 11.
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He’s back, and no one in British politics knows what to do. As leader of the U.K. Independence Party until November 2016, Nigel Farage helped to turn leaving the European Union from a fringe idea of a few constitutional obsessives into the policy of Her Majesty’s government.
After the 2016 Brexit referendum, he announced his retirement from frontline politics and his intention to get his “life back.” This turned out to mean hosting a U.K. radio phone-in show and becoming a contributor to Fox News. He also kept his seat in the European Parliament.