Claim ea2f9c26Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“That ambition was to succeed in business.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
Farage’s own public descriptions of his youth are consistent with this claim. In the High Profiles interview, he said that at 18 he was “fiercely ambitious” and that his ambition was “to succeed in business and make a lot of money.” The Guardian likewise reported that he went straight into the City at 18 and described his youthful ambition as “Be rich, absolutely,” and noted that he later started his own business. Taken together, the public record supports the claim. Sources: High Profiles interview; The Guardian interviews. (highprofiles.info)
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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| [1] | highprofiles.info |
| [2] | theguardian.com |