Claim 3b922dbcChecked 09 Jul 2026
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“His family on both his mother’s side and his father’s side were very patriotic people.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is broadly supported by public biographical reporting. Michael Crick’s biography of Farage says that both sides of the family were “traditional Conservatives” and “patriotic people” shaped by Britain’s role in the two world wars, and it adds that Farage’s grandfather Harry Farage volunteered in 1914 and was wounded in WWI. A Guardian profile also says Farage’s mother came from a family of senior policemen, which fits the picture of a strongly establishment-minded, patriotic family background. The wording “very patriotic people” is somewhat subjective, but the underlying claim is consistent with the available evidence. Sources: Michael Crick, *One Party After Another* (Everand excerpt) https://www.everand.com/book/552502790/One-Party-After-Another-The-Disruptive-Life-of-Nigel-Farage ; 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 ; The Guardian, “Other party leaders live in a PC world. They’re all purer than pure. Well, I’m not” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/06/1
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.
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