The Real Nigel Farage

Join veteran investigative reporter John Sweeney in conversation with author Martin Fitzgerald as he discusses his no-holds-barred biography of the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage is the most consequential politician of our age. On current polling, he is likely to become the UK's prime minister at the next general election. But who is he? Farage's life has been one hell of a romp. The man who delivered Brexit makes the political weather like no one else. He talks saloon-bar English to voters, shows courage, and cracks good jokes, sometimes at his own expense. He has survived a car accident and a plane crash, and has come through it all baring his tobacco-stained teeth and laughing his trademark croak.

But there is another, darker, side to the man who would be our leader. In The Real Nigel Farage, fearless investigative reporter John Sweeney makes the case for the prosecution, levelling seven grave charges that demonstrate why Farage is not a fit and proper candidate to become prime minister.

Drawing on interviews with people who have seen Farage up close and personal - from fellow Dulwich College pupils to party colleagues and at least one former lover - Sweeney paints a portrait of a man whose character can be summed up in three words: charisma, cruelty, chaos. John Sweeney has gone head-to-head with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in a career spanning three decades.

Now it's Nigel Farage's turn.

Featuring - John Sweeney

Martin Fitzgerald