Nigel Farage has just delivered his speech at Ukip conference, in which he declared that he had put ‘absolutely all of me’ into Britain leaving the EU. ‘I literally couldn’t have worked any harder, or couldn’t have been more determined – it’s been my life’s work to get to this point. I want my country back, but now folks I want my life back,’ he said.
He went onto claim that Ukip had ‘changed the course of British history’ and suggested that the party had ‘brought down a prime minister’ and had ‘got rid of a chancellor’. On Theresa May’s premiership, he suggested there was a ‘great political battle ahead’, before raising concerns that she might go for a ‘soft Brexit’. Farage then couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Douglas Carswell, his party’s only MP. He suggested that the party was starting to attract people who ‘don’t do it for altruistic aims, but are motivated by their own professional careers in politics’.
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