Show me the receipts: Nigel Farage’s history of LGBTQ-related public statements revisited

Nigel Farage (Image: Laurie Noble/Wikimedia Commons)

If two Trump terms and a 49-day Liz Truss premiership were previously unfathomable, let us not underestimate the very real threat of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage one day becoming prime minister.

Previously leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016, he founded the Brexit Party, now Reform, in 2018. He was also a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020.

Here, we revisit moments when his position on LGBTQ+ issues was revealed.

March 2014

Following the introduction of marriage equality, Farage is pressed for his views on LBC radio, saying: “We are opening up a very big

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