Nigel Paul Farage (/ˈfærɑ:ʒ/;[c] born 3 April 1964)[5] is a British activist, political commentator, broadcaster and former politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and as Leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was the host of The Nigel Farage Show, a radio phone-in on the Global-owned talk radio station LBC, from 2017 to 2020.[6] Farage currently serves as the Honorary President of Reform UK.[7]

Known as a prominent Eurosceptic in the UK since the early 1990s, Farage campaigned for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. Farage was a founding member of UKIP, having left the Conservative Party in 1992 after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty,[8] which furthered European integration and founded the European Union. After campaigning unsuccessfully in European and Westminster parliamentary elections since 1994, he was elected MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament election. He was re-elected in the 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 European Parliament elections. In the European Parliament, he served as the President of Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD)[d][9] where he was noted for his speeches,[10][11] and as a vocal critic of the euro currency.