One Party After Another: the ‘best biography of Nigel Farage’

Michael Crick tells the story of how Farage came to play such a decisive role in British politics

Nigel Farage
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Despite never having become a British MP, Nigel Farage is one of the most “consequential” politicians of our time, said Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer. More or less single-handedly, he transformed UKIP from an “eccentric fringe into an insurgent force” capable of panicking David Cameron into pledging a referendum on Britain’s EU membership. “Absent that referendum, there would have been no Brexit” – and very likely no Boris Johnson premiership.

In this “gripping and vivid biography”, Michael Crick tells the story of how a stockbroker’s son from Kent – who went to the elite Dulwich College but never made it to university, after getting mediocre A levels – came to play such a decisive role in British politics. Comprehensively researched and full of “jaw-dropping” stories, this is the “best biography of Farage that will be written”.

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