CLACTON-ON-SEA – “Do you know that it all started here?” Nigel Farage welcomes us to his office in Clacton-on-Sea, a deprived coastal town in Essex, south-east England, where he was finally elected to Westminster after eight failed attempts. “Many people have moved here from East London, where they no longer want to raise their children.”
Standing on a Union Jack doormat and dressed in a leaf-green tweed jacket and mustard-coloured trousers, the architect of Brexit and leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, which is currently leading in the polls, has chosen la Repubblica for his only international interview ahead of the tenth anniversary of the referendum that led to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
Let’s start from that 23rd of June 2016.
"The day before the referendum, when I was here in Clacton, and then went back to London, I thought we had every chance of winning. On the morning of the vote, an opinion poll was published that put Remain 10 points ahead. Of course, it was a lie, and the pollster that did it was rewarded. He's now in the House of Lords. That's how corrupt our establishment was."
Who was it?
