Nigel Farage: The saloon bar king who helped deliver Brexit

Nigel Farage may have stood – and failed – seven times to gain election as an MP, but he has nevertheless been one of the most influential British politicians of the post-war era.

Reform UK’s highest-profile figure initially said he was not standing in July’s General Election and would instead focus on Donald Trump’s second run at the White House in the US election in November, but in a U-turn on Monday he announced he would stand to be an MP for the eighth time.

Without his rambunctious enthusiasm and relentless campaigning over the course of more than two decades, few doubt the country would ever have had the referendum which resulted in the