Farage, Nigel (1964 - )
- Nigel Farage, MEP (Photo: These Tides)
British Member of the European Parliament since 1999. In July 2009 he established a new political group in the European Parliament called Europe for Freedom and Democracy. He was elected president of the group and has an Italian MEP, Francesco Enrico Speroni, as his co-chair.
In July 2004 he was elected co-president of the Independence and Democracy Group (Ind/Dem) in the European Parliament, which is the successor of the EDD Group.
He was a founder member of the UK Independence Party in September 1993 and is now the party leader for a group with 13 MEPs - same size as the governing Labour party.
Links
Nigel Farage's blog: http://www.ukip.org/content/nigel-farages-blog
About UKIP: http://www.ukip.org/
