Claim 7f146252Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“That ambition was to make a lot of money.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Farage publicly described his age-18 ambition as "to succeed in business and make a lot of money" in the High Profiles interview, which directly matches the claim. A later Guardian profile likewise described his youthful ambition as "Be rich, absolutely" and said he was "desperate to make his fortune," reinforcing the same point. Because this is a publicly stated past ambition rather than an externally measurable event, the available evidence supports the claim. Sources: High Profiles (Nigel Farage interview); The Guardian profile/interview on Nigel Farage.
From article
You write that when you left school ‘I had worlds to conquer’ and it struck me: He’s not one of those men who want to save the world, he wants to conquer it.
I was fiercely ambitious when I was 18. Fiercely ambitious. And that ambition was to succeed in business and make a lot of money – that was how I thought and how I felt. But I’ve changed, haven’t I, because I’m not pursuing that course any more. In many ways I’ve turned my back on a life of money completely – I mean, much of the last 10 years has been grinding poverty. People laugh at that, but actually if you’re trying to bring up a big family earning half what a GP earns…
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