Britain | A new routine

After Brexit, Nigel Farage has net zero in his sights

He hopes for a referendum. He may find a niche

Back to the front again
|Southend-on-Sea

THE NAVAL AND MILITARY CLUB, a haunt for ex-servicemen high above the Thames estuary, is the sort of venue Nigel Farage has worked for 30 years. In the early 1990s, as an unknown in a fringe movement, he would hone his oratory night after night in pubs, church halls and lounges across southern England, denouncing Brussels with a peroration his regulars learned to mouth in unison.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A new routine”

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