Nigel Farage steps down as UK Independence Party leader

One of Britain’s Brexit campaigners and MEP’s Nigel Farage has announced he is throwing in the towel as leader of UKIP.

“I have never been and I have never wanted to be a career politician,” he said in a speech on Monday morning.

“I couldn’t possibly achieve more than we managed to achieve in the referendum. So I think it is right that I should stand aside as leader of UKIP.” Farage said.

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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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