A world without Nigel Farage
British politics hinges on one man’s survival
Nigel Farage’s eulogy has already been written. “Nigel was so full of promise and energy,” begins the vicar in St Mary the Virgin in Downe, Mr Farage’s hometown. “Everyone liked him. At the pub, the golf club and at least one church fete, he talked to everyone with such ease and understanding.” In his autobiography, Mr Farage recalls conjuring this scene while prone in hospital after a Volkswagen Beetle left the then 21-year-old crumpled like a “sort of fractured swastika”.
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