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Article: MAKING PLANS WITH NIGEL Ukip's laddish leader is on a mission to transform his party into a major and lasting political force. First, though, he has to overcome his internal critics, a court case, an expenses probe, a suspicious wife and, er, make it out of the pub.
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- March 11, 2007
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Re-load!'' bellows Nigel Farage, slamming his empty pint glass
down on the polished wood of the bar. It is twenty past one on a
Friday afternoon and the leader of the United Kingdom Independence
Party is, it would seem, up for it.
Mr Farage is apparently enjoying The Sunday Telegraph's company.
Earlier, for our photographer, he had posed with some relish for 30
minutes in front of Buckingham Palace. We had then repaired to Ukip's
spartan office near St James's Park, where, during a 90-minute
interview, coffee came served in a Conservative Party mug. After
that, Mr Farage suggested we move on to the Two Chairmen, a pub in
Westminster, where we are now firmly ensconced with soon-to-be ...