Claim b08be326Checked 09 Jul 2026
TrueOn the truth scale
“I am not pursuing that course any more.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is supported by Farage’s documented career path. By 2011 he was serving as a UKIP MEP and co-chair of a European Parliament group, and his own biography says he had wound up his business, Farage Futures, in 2002. That makes his statement that he was no longer pursuing the business/money-making course broadly accurate. Sources: European Parliament profile of Nigel Farage (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4525/NIGEL_FARAGE/history/7); High Profiles biography page for Nigel Farage (https://highprofiles.info/interview/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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