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Brexit supporter Nigel Farage resigns as UK Independence Party leader
July 4, 2016 at 07:54
“I have never been and I have never wanted to be a career politician,” he said in a speech on Monday morning
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“I couldn’t possibly achieve more than we managed to achieve in the referendum. So I think it’s right that I should stand aside as leader of UKIP.”
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“I couldn’t possibly achieve more than we managed to achieve in the referendum. So I think it’s right that I should stand aside as leader of UKIP.”
Nigel Farage's statement on quitting (again) - "Ukip's best days may be yet to come" pic.twitter.com/eW2jnUK7Qj
— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) July 4, 2016
Thank you @Nigel_Farage. Onwards and upwards.
— UKIP Scotland (@UKIP_Scotland) July 4, 2016
Now that, as he sees it, he has his country back, Farage said he is ready to get “his life back.”
Farage, who returned to the leadership almost immediately after resigning from his post in the wake of a disappointing UKIP result at the 2015 general election, has ruled out the possibility of changing his mind once more.
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