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Nigel Farage speaking at the the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) annual conference in Bournemouth, Britain, in September.

Nigel Farage, UKIP and the Revenge of the Fruitcakes

by Jason Cowley | May 11, 2017 | Opinion

LONDON — A remarkable party was held last Nov. 24 at the Ritz Hotel here in honor of Nigel Farage, the politician who did more than any other to create the conditions for last June’s referendum vote on Britain’s membership in the European Union. While Mr. Farage had...

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London Mayor Boris Johnson prepares to speak to the media in front of his home in London, Britain February 21, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Fishermen Protest Calls for Brexit, Cameron Threatens New Austerity

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 16, 2016 | World

London-Eight days ahead of the June 23 referendum, Ukip leader Nigel Farage joined a fleet of Brexit-backing fishing boats sailing up the Thames River on Wednesday as part of his campaign to convince voters to back a Brexit. Farage set sail on a small trawler at the...

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UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage leaves the stage after delivering his first major speech of UKIP’s 2015 general election campaign on Canvey Island, England, on February 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)

Britain’s anti-EU party consumed by infighting after election setback

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 14, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party was consumed by bitter infighting on Thursday after winning just one seat in a national election with the party’s campaign chief accusing leader Nigel Farage of making it look like a...

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Migrants crowd the inflatable dinghy rescue vessel “Denaro” (not in picture) as the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, on April 22, 2015. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

Opinion: Death Boats and the Missing Solution for Libya

by Osman Mirghani | Apr 24, 2015 | Opinion

While the EU is actively responding to the “death boats” tragedy that has seen thousands of bodies washed ashore in Europe, the Arab world seems to be unconcerned about the victims or the issue that concerns us more than anyone else. Almost all of those boats set sail...

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From L to R, top to bottom, chairman of the True Finns party Timo Soini, leader of the German neo-Nazi party NPD Udo Voigt, Greece’s Golden Dawn spokesman and parliament member Ilias Kasidiaris, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, leader of right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) party Heinz-Christian Strache, Chairman of Hungarian far-right parliamentary JOBBIK (Better) party Gabor Vona, Danish Peoples Party’s Morten Messerschmidt and France’s far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen. (AFP PHOTO)

Far right, Euroskeptics make sweeping gains in European Parliament election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2014 | World

Brussels, AP—Far-right and Euroskeptic parties made sweeping gains in European Parliament elections Sunday—triggering what one prime minister called a political “earthquake” by those who want to slash the powers of the European Union or abolish it...