Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kisson. And this is a show

for you, if you want, on his conversations with fascinating people. An interesting guest we have

for you today is Mr Brexit himself Nigel Farage. Welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you very much,

pleasure to be here in this Brexit Britain. You started off very non-partisan there, Nigel,

but listen, it's great to have you on. I just said the table a little bit and get our cards

on that table. Francis and I both voted remain. There will be a lot of people who watch the show,

who love you. There will be lots of people who watch the show, who hate you. There will be lots of

people who watch the show, who are sort of in the middle between those two. But I think for us,

the way we feel about it, if someone is objective about your career, they would have to admit that

in terms of achieving your results, now people may hate the results you've achieved. But

you've been one of the most successful politicians in my lifetime, certainly.

Now, I wanted to talk a little bit about where that comes from because you've had to fight.

You know, when you're standing there next to the candidate for the Monster Raving Looney party

and you're closer to him than you are to winning that election all those years ago,

what is it that makes you tick and keep fighting and keep going?

Well, I think once I was quite normal because I left school, I skipped university because the

the boom in the city had started, you know, that should have been elected. There was the development

of something called the Yuppie. And I thought, yeah, I like the look at that, I want to be a Yuppie.

So I skipped university, went to work in the city of London, worked on a place called

the London Metal Exchange, which as I've always said to people, we used to work very hard up until

lunchtime every day. It's a disintegrate pretty quickly. And I played golf, you know, I was a

four handicap golfer. I got married, young, had kids, young. And I was all set, really, you know,

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