For someone who has spent his whole life building up to the referendum, Nigel Farage has had a rather patchy campaign. On the one hand, he has performed reasonably well in his TV question time slot, exceeding the expectations of those in the Leave camp who were dismayed that ITV had signed up the Ukip leader to its referendum programme. But on the other, he has unveiled a poster that bears striking similarities to ones used by the Nazis and has been shunned by the official Leave campaign.
Today, the Ukip leader gave his final speech of a campaign that he has spent his political life pushing for. At one point, as he brandished a passport, he said ‘this is the last time in this campaign I’m going to do this’. He has finally got here.
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Farage also argued, naturally, that Ukip would continue to have an important role in British politics after the referendum:
‘I think whatever happens tomorrow, I think that Ukip has an important role to play, firstly in the European Parliament… and I do think within this country posing a direct electoral threat in case there was any backtracking.
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