The disruptive life of Nigel Farage
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Farage is the latest person under Michael Crick's microscope, as the veteran broadcaster attempts to demystify one of Britain's most complex politicians in his new book.
He joins Christopher Hope to discuss the moments that should have ended Mr Farage's political rise; how history will measure the man ("It all depends on the success of Brexit!") and what he thinks the former UKIP leader has in common with Tony Blair.
Plus Chris and Michael compare war stories of long lunches with the politician famous for his love of pints.
'One Party After Another, review: a warts-and-all portrait of Nigel Farage, the outsider who changed Britain,' by Simon Heffer: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/one-party-another-review-warts-and-all-portrait-nigel-farage/ |
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on shoppers politics, the great irony, though, a Farah Hush, is that he never really believed in a referendum. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Christopher Hope, the Telegraph Associate Editor, and this is Choppas Politics. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, Parliament is in recess and it's been a hectic start so far |
| 0:26.0 | to the year so I thought I'd change the pace up a bit this week and bring you an interview |
| 0:30.8 | with veteran broadcaster Michael Crick. Now Michael Crick has |
| 0:34.8 | written biographies of Alex Ferguson, Michael Hesseltine and Jeffrey Archer. And his |
| 0:39.4 | latest book, Nigel Farage, One Party After Another, tells the story of one man's riot of political power |
| 0:46.2 | without ever making it into the House of Commons. It had rave reviews so far from across the political spectrum, so I caught up with Michael to ask him why he chose the controversial figure of Nigel Farage as his latest subject. |
| 1:01.0 | Michael Crick, welcome to Chopper's politics. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, thank you for having me. I'm delighted. |
| 1:06.0 | Now, you've written a book about Nigel Farage, one party after another, |
| 1:10.0 | the disrupted life of Nigel Farage. Why? Well because nobody else had done it. |
| 1:15.2 | I mean I was waiting for you to do it Chris. I thought if anybody's going to write a book about |
| 1:19.9 | Nigel Farage it's going to be Chris Hope and I I wish you years and years, and you didn't. |
| 1:24.2 | No, I mean, seriously, a couple of other people |
| 1:26.8 | planned to do it. |
| 1:28.2 | One of them, I found that Nigel Farage |
| 1:30.5 | didn't want to cooperate with him. Well, that's not a problem for me. |
| 1:33.6 | And then there was an e-book written some years ago |
| 1:36.3 | by Matthew Lind, but it was quite short. |
| 1:40.5 | And of course, he's written his own memoirs twice. |
| 1:43.0 | So, but I mean it's a massive gap in the market I thought. |
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