The claim that "many of Farage's drinking mates are dead" is a personal assertion about unnamed private individuals — specifically, people Farage drank with during his City of London trading career in the 1980s and 1990s. Farage repeats the statement emphatically in the interview ("A lot of them are dead. A lot of them are dead."), but the claim refers to unnamed private individuals whose identities and fates are not matters of public record. Searches found no independent public corroboration of this specific claim. While there is abundant public evidence that the City drinking culture Farage describes was real and well-documented (long "proper fucking lunches," heavy alcohol consumption on trading floors, etc.), and while Farage's own father's alcoholism is publicly known, none of this confirms that specific unnamed drinking companions of Farage died. There are no named individuals publicly identified as Farage's drinking mates who died, nor any obituaries or reports tying deaths to his social circle from that era. This is a well-defined, fact-shaped claim, but the evidence needed to verify it — the identities and death records of Farage's private drinking companions — is not publicly available. The claim cannot be independently confirmed or contradicted by public evidence. Sources: BBC News, "The Nigel Farage story" (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36701855); BBC News, "Profile: Nigel Farage, UKIP leader" (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-20543513); Times Online, "Nigel Farage: Brimming over with bile and booze" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110811094714/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7069638.ece); Financial Times, "Lunch with the FT: Nigel Farage" (https://www.ft.com/content/864c3a96-fbf1-11e5-b5f5-070dca6d0a0d); High Profiles interview (https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/)