Brexit showdown: It’s time for us to stop underestimating Nigel Farage
Businesses have mocked him and the left has dismissed him, yet the scourge of Remainers has still triumphed. Chris Blackhurst looks at why
We were sitting in the green room, waiting to review the papers on Sky television, when Nigel Farage asked if I’d like to join him outside, for a fag.
I said I didn’t smoke, but that I’d join him anyway. So there we stood, skulking outside the studio on Millbank, in Westminster, while Nige had a crafty one. Meanwhile, the floor manager for the show must have been having kittens that the two guests had upped sticks and vanished.
Nobody else would have done that. Plenty of talking heads on TV enjoyed a cigarette, but it’s impossible to think of one who would just have absented themselves in such a fashion. We came back through the door, grinning like naughty schoolboys. It was par for the course for Farage.
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