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Nigel Farage profile: his political career began in a bar
In my profile of Nigel Farage on Channel 4 News, the Ukip leader describes the moment he says his life changed tack and a metal trader with hopes of riches in the City became a full-time politician.
It was when he heard – in a bar, as it happens – that the UK had entered the exchange rate mechanism in October 1990.
He’d been a low-key and not very active Conservative supporter on the side but saw Europe as a force that was ever more restricting the City.
Channel 4 news nigel farage biography
He helped to found a party sprung from the Anti-Federalist League that could fit in a small room. A saloon bar riff turned into a political mission.
Except look at Mr Farage now and the mission has mushroomed into something much bigger and, in the eyes of some Ukip long marchers, completely confused.
Ask Mr Farage about his central political mission now and he tends to talk about smashing the two-party political system.
He used to wax lyrical in private