
Nigel Farage, who announced on Monday an eighth bid to become a British MP, has risen from fringe eurosceptic rabble-rouser to an attention-grabbing figurehead who wants to "reshape" right-wing UK politics.
The 60-year-old former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) was a driving force behind Britain's 2016 Brexit vote, before forging a career more recently as a presenter on the upstart right-wing TV channel GB News.