The claim that Nigel Farage "drank more or less continuously" comes directly from Farage's own autobiography. In an interview with Huw Spanner, the interviewer quotes Farage's book back to him: "You write about how much fun you had, 'drinking more or less continuously.'" Farage does not dispute the quotation; instead, he engages with the broader point about the City's drinking culture, saying, "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." The Independent (London) profile of Farage confirms the exact quote from his first book: "I was handling millions and drinking more or less continuously." The Times profile corroborates the heavy drinking culture Farage describes, noting that a "proper lunch lasted seven, eight hours" and that Farage's near-fatal car accident at age 21 followed a day of drinking. Farage himself acknowledges in multiple interviews that he was part of an intense "booze culture" in the City during the 1980s, though he also says he was "lucky" not to have developed alcoholism like his father. The phrase "more or less continuously" is Farage's own self-characterization of his drinking habits during his City years. While it is a somewhat hyperbolic expression (clearly not literally 24/7), it accurately reflects the pervasive drinking culture he participated in, as confirmed by multiple independent sources. Farage himself does not dispute the characterization when it is put to him in the interview. Sources: - The Independent, "Nigel Farage: 'Politicians govern through fear'" — https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-politicians-govern-through-fear-6297949.html - High Profiles, interview with Nigel Farage — https://highprofiles.info/interview/nigel-farage/ - The Times (via archive), "Nigel Farage: Brimming over with bile and booze" — https://web.archive.org/web/20110811094714/http:/www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7069638.ece - BBC News, "Profile: Nigel Farage, UKIP leader" — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-20543513