Claim 9eee3feaChecked 09 Jul 2026
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“Nigel Farage uses that position to try to persuade others that UKIP is actually right.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Public records support the substance of the claim. The European Parliament profile shows Nigel Farage was a UKIP MEP and later an EFDD co-chair, and the Parliament’s own 2016 debate coverage quotes him saying that when he arrived in Parliament he was “announcing a campaign to leave the EU.” That is consistent with using his parliamentary position to persuade others of UKIP’s eurosceptic position. The phrase “UKIP is actually right” is a paraphrase rather than a separately verifiable quote, but the underlying claim about how he used that position is supported. Sources: European Parliament profile of Nigel Farage (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4525/NIGEL_FARAGE/history/7); European Parliament news coverage of the Brexit debate (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20160628IPR34007/debate-on-brexit-and-its-consequences).
From article
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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