Claim 2fb3e351Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“They were all mega-Thatcherite.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The public record supports only a narrower version of the claim: a later LBC interview says Farage's parents and grandparents were Conservative, and a 2012 Guardian profile says Farage himself was an admirer of Thatcherite policy / an aspiring Thatcherite. (lbc.co.uk) But I found no independent public evidence proving that all relatives on both sides were specifically 'mega-Thatcherite'. (lbc.co.uk) Sources: LBC, 'Nigel Farage admits some in his family do not vote Reform' (https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/nigel-farage-admits-some-in-his-family-do-not-vote-reform-5HjdbWP_2/); The Guardian, 'Nigel Farage: I was never scared of being out on a limb' (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/jul/20/nigel-farage-ukip-leader-interview).
From article
Well, you know, this is all rather silly, isn’t it, because, actually, calling somebody ‘a damp rag’ is a pretty minor form of abuse compared with what happens every Wednesday at Prime Minister’s Questions.
My family, both my mother’s side and my father’s, were very patriotic people. They believed in this country, they believed that the sacrifices they’d lived through through two world wars, awful though they were, had been worthwhile to keep our freedom and democracy. When I was small, you could never spend time with my grandparents without them talking about the past. One of my grandfathers was wounded in the Great War, in a very nasty action in which the corporal got the VC.
We were basically, on both sides, traditionally Conservative – but all mega-Thatcherite, because that was a breath of fresh air.
Sources opened+ 37 search hits considered
| [1] | highprofiles.info |
| [2] | theguardian.com |
| [3] | lbc.co.uk |