In the week that David Cameron returned to government and Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan came a cropper, Nigel Farage has been on the other side of the world preparing for a Bushtucker trial. Farage’s decision to sign up for I’m a Celebrity has been spectacularly badly timed on his part. One of the most sensational political stories of recent years, and Nigel is deep in the Australian jungle with has-beens, nobodies and creepy crawlies.
In justifying his decision to accept the reality TV dollar, the former Brexit party leader said: ‘I am hoping those who hate me might hate me a little bit less afterwards.’ Admitting his appearance in I’m A Celebrity was ‘a gamble’, Farage added: ‘I have been a little bit demonised… and the idea that somehow the things I represent – mean-spirited, small-minded, nasty, the ‘little Englander’ – all those accusations that have been flung at me over the years just aren’t true.
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