Nigel Farage will stand in general election 2024 as he becomes Reform UK leader

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : He nevertheless managed to stir controversy with Ukip's "breaking point" poster, picturing a long queue of a immigrants, leading to fresh allegations he was trying to exploit anti-immigrant sentiment.
58% : In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, an apparently exhausted Mr Farage announced he was quitting (for a third time) as Ukip leader declaring: "I want my life back."
55% : "So I have decided I've changed my mind, it's allowed you know, it's not always a sign of weakness, it could potentially be a sign of strength.
45% : 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 momentous vote to leave the EU.
45% : Undeterred, in 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament as MEP for South East England, a position which was to provide him with a platform - as well as crucial funding - to propagate his anti-EU agenda for the next two decades.
45% : Elected Ukip leader in 2006, his talent for political invective made him a thorn in the side of the Brussels establishment, famously denouncing the new European Council president Herman van Rompuy as having the "charisma of a damp rag" and the appearance of "a low-grade bank clerk".
34% : Its successes were instrumental in forcing David Cameron, who had once dismissed Ukip as "fruit cakes, loonies and closet racists", to bow to demands for an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
32% : On May 23, Mr Farage said he would focus on getting Donald Trump re-elected as US president rather than stand as a Reform UK candidate in the July 4 contest.

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