“When UKIP started, only about six people in the country supported the idea represented by UKIP.”

Nigel Farage's claim that "only about six of us in the country believed in this" when UKIP started is a clear rhetorical exaggeration that is contradicted by the available evidence. UKIP was founded on 3 September 1993 at the London School of Economics by members of the Anti-Federalist League (AFL), which had been established in November 1991 by Alan Sked and Helen Szamuely. The AFL had already fielded seventeen candidates in the 1992 general election, including Sked himself, and had members including Farage, Gerard Batten, and others. The founding meeting involved a group of AFL activists, not just six people. Farage may be loosely recalling a small founding group, but his literal assertion that only about six people in the entire country supported the idea of UK withdrawal from the EU is not accurate. The AFL was a small organisation, but it had more than six active members and seventeen election candidates by 1992. The claim as stated is false. Sources: BBC News, "UKIP: The story of the UK Independence Party's rise," https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21614073; Wikipedia, "Anti-Federalist League," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalist_League; Wikipedia, "UK Independence Party," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party; LSE History, "The founding of the Anti-Federalist League," https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2018/09/26/in-the-lse-library-archives-the-founding-of-the-anti-federalist-league/; Ford & Goodwin, "Revolt on the Right" (via Perlego), https://www.perlego.com/book/1546360/revolt-on-the-right-explaining-support-for-the-radical-right-in-britain-pdf