He’s gone. Again. Even casual watchers of UK politics will be used to Nigel Farage quitting…and then returning.But this time, he insists it is for real. Except leaving politics does not mean disappearing from public life. ‘I now feel I can do just as much to shift public opinion through media and social media as I can as a campaigning party leader,’ he said in his announcement that he was quitting heading up the Reform Party.