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The party’s finally over for Nigel Farage

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage Michael Crick

Simon & Schuster, pp.608, 25

Nigel Farage was never even an MP, but Michael Crick argues convincingly that he is one of the top five most significant politicians of the past half century. Without him we might still be in the EU. All political careers supposedly end in failure, but maybe his didn’t.

As with Boris Johnson (whom he resembles in many ways), Farage’s bluff, bonhomous public image is misleading.

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