New Ukip leader’s interesting CV

Today, the UK Independence Party announced that Freddy Vachha will become the newest leader of the party. Vachha has been Ukip’s London Regional Chairman since 2016 and takes the reins from Richard Braine, who resigned just weeks before the general election last year after clashing with the party’s NEC. For those who’ve struggled to keep up, Vachha becomes the sixth leader of the party since Nigel Farage stepped down in 2016.

At the leadership announcement this afternoon in front of Churchill’s statue in Parliament square, Vachha read a speech from his phone out loud, and said it was ‘time for Ukip to get back to business’.

Mr S was most intrigued though by Vachha’s action-packed CV. In his ‘brief’ curriculum vitae Ukip’s new leader described his politics as ‘common sense Ukip libertarian’, declared that he’d only smoked two cigarettes in his life, and scored 175+ in an IQ test taken in 1975.