Claim 519e99a5Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“Nigel Farage is there to represent the people who voted for him.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Nigel Farage did say he saw his role as an MEP as representing the people who voted for him, and he was in fact a member of the European Parliament at the time. But the claim is misleading if taken as his formal representative duty: the European Parliament describes MEPs as representing the interests of EU citizens, not only their supporters, and UK Parliament says MPs represent everyone in their constituency, including supporters of other parties. So the statement matches Farage’s self-description, but it overstates what elected representatives are officially there to do. Sources: European Parliament, "About Parliament" https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/home; European Parliament, "The Members" https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisation-and-rules/organisation/members; UK Parliament, "Members of Parliament" https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/.
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It would be silly to say that – you could never, ever represent the whole country – and since I was elected to the European Parliament I’ve always said that I’m not going to represent the whole constituency (and remember it’s vast – six million voters), I’m there to represent the people who voted for me and to use that position to try to persuade others that we are actually right.
But the interesting thing about [the UK Independence Party] is that it attracts an incredibly diverse range of people. We pick up what I would call ‘patriotic Old Labour’, we pick up classical liberals who hate the big state and believe in individual freedom and we pick up traditional Tories who believe in the country. And don’t forget that when we started [in 1993], only about six of us in the country believed in this.
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