Farage has only got one… chance to remain leader
By the numbers: the life and times (and promise to stand down if he loses South Thanet) of Nigel Farage
The Daily Telegraph is serialising Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s memoir, The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything. Here, by the numbers, are one or two things we have learned as a result:
1 The number of testicles he possesses. He was diagnosed with testicular cancer as a 21-year-old: the operation saved the need for chemotherapy.
2 The number of vertebrae he broke when the light plane he was travelling in crashed on the morning of the May 2010 general election.
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3 The number of Westminster seats he has fought and lost so far: Bexhill and Battle (2001), Bromley and Chislehurst (2006 by-election), Buckingham (2010).
4 The number of children he has - two sons and two daughters.
11 The number of months during which he was unable to have a bath after being hit by a car in 1985: he had been out for a curry and had drunk “steadily throughout the afternoon".
15 The average percentage share of the national vote currently enjoyed by Ukip, according to one polling average. The party’s share was 3.1 per cent at the 2010 general election.
18 The age at which he entered the City, working for a metals trading business.
19th The only hole he’s really comfortable with at the golf club. Although he looks the part, he hasn’t got the hand-eye coordination to swing a golf club because of the injuries sustained in that 2010 plane crash.
52 The number of days remaining of his leadership of Ukip if he fails to win South Thanet on 7 May. He promises in his book to stand down if he doesn’t win the Kent seat.
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