Claim a38853e7Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“Lots of people who were my drinking mates in the City have been through the most disastrous downward spirals.”
Interpreted asmetaphor
“Lots of people who were my drinking mates in the City have experienced very severe declines in their lives.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Public sources confirm that Farage worked in the City of London as a commodities trader, but I found no public evidence identifying the specific “drinking mates” he is referring to or documenting that lots of them experienced severe life declines. Because the claim concerns unnamed private individuals and their personal outcomes, it is not publicly verifiable from available evidence. Sources: High Profiles interview with Nigel Farage; National Portrait Gallery biography of Nigel Farage; Bloomberg News profile on Farage’s City career. (highprofiles.info)
From article
I didn’t say that in the book, no.
Listen, drink is an extraordinary thing. It’s very, very deeply embedded within our culture, and when I left school and went into the City – well, everything revolved around it. I’m very honest about the culture. You know, looking back on it now, many people would be repelled by it. And some people who go through that lifestyle are lucky and some are desperately unlucky, and you never know which you’re going to be. Lots of people who were my drinking mates in the City have been through the most disastrous downward spirals, and a lot of them are dead. A lot of them are dead. I lived through all of that and I’m very candid: I say I am lucky. I am lucky.
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