Claim ad981ba0Checked 21 Jul 2026
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“Farage left school and went into the City.”
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim that Nigel Farage left school and went into the City is well-supported by multiple authoritative sources. According to the BBC, Farage did not attend university after leaving Dulwich College at 18 and entered the City instead, starting as a commodities trader at the London Metals Exchange in 1982. Wikipedia confirms the same timeline: "After leaving school in 1982, Farage obtained employment in the City of London, as a commodities trader," initially joining Drexel Burnham Lambert. City AM also corroborates that he began his City career in 1982 at a commodities brokerage. All sources agree that he went straight from school into the City without university, which is exactly what Farage claims in the interview.
Sources:
- BBC News, "The Nigel Farage story" — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36701855
- BBC News, "Profile: Nigel Farage, UKIP leader" — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20543513
- Wikipedia, "Nigel Farage" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Farage
- City AM, "I'm A Celeb star Nigel Farage had failed London company before politics" — https://www.cityam.com/im-a-celeb-star-nigel-farage-had-city-career-including-failed-brokerage-that-went-insolvent/
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.
Sources opened
| [1] | bbc.co.uk |
| [2] | bbc.co.uk |
| [3] | en.wikipedia.org |
| [4] | cityam.com |
| [5] | the-independent.com |