Farage pledges to "Make Britain Great Again" on his eighth attempt to become an MP.

 

Nigel Farage

Politically, Nigel Farage is a Thatcherite Tory. He's a right-wing, populist, English nationalist, who admires both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Although Farage and his party UKIP, campaigned for a UK referendum on Britain's membership of the E.U., he now says the Conservative government have "betrayed Brexit" and that "Brexit has failed." He has to say this because he knows the British people were sold a pup with Brexit. Britain has hardly taken back control of its borders and net migration to the UK reached a record high of 745,000 in 2022. Brexit has also led to labour shortages and the annexation of Northern Ireland.

Farage is now standing to become an MP in Clacton for the eighth time and he says he will "make Britain great again." I seem to have heard this said before by another charlatan.

An internal dossier written by staff working for Coutts the bankers, described Farage as a "disingenuous grifter" who "is at best seen as xenophobic and pandering to racists." Lawyers hired by NatWest determined that Coutts had a "contractual right" to close Farage's accounts because the bank was losing money by keeping him as a client and was at risk of reputational damage. Farage called the report a "whitewash," and said he would be taking legal action.

The controversy led to the resignation of Alison Rose, the CEO of NatWest and Peter Flavel, the CEO of Coutts.