Farage, Nigel Paul

Farage, Nigel Paul

(fâr`äj), 1964–, British political leader. A commodities trader and long a Euroskeptic, he was a member of the Conservative party until 1992, when Prime Minister John MajorMajor, John,
1943–, British statesman, b. John Major Ball. Raised in a working-class area of London, he was elected to Lambeth borough council (1968–71) and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1979.
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 signed the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European UnionEuropean Union
(EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community (EC), an economic and political confederation of European nations, and other organizations (with the same member nations)
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. He became (2003) a founding member of the UK Independence party (UKIP), and then its leader (2006–9, 2010–16). An outspoken member of the European Parliament (1999–), he has served as chairman of its Euroskeptic, populist Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy grouping (2009–). A long-time proponent of Britain's quitting the EU, Farage campaigned strongly, sometimes controversially, and ultimately successfully for a "Brexit" yes vote in the country's 2016 referendum. He quit UKIP in 2018 as it embraced more extremist positions.