NEW YORK CITY, New York — The New York Young Republicans Club will today announce that “Mr. Brexit” Nigel Farage will be a keynote speaker for their 111th annual gala in Manhattan, set to take place on December 9th at the ritzy Cipriani Wall Street.
The event will also featured honored guests and speakers including The National Pulse’s own Raheem Kassam, the War Room’s Steve Bannon, and Human Events’ Jack Posobiec.
Tickets are available now.
Farage, now the most watched nightly news host in the United Kingdom, began his career in 1982 as a commodities trader at the London Metal Exchange and years later ran his own metals brokerage firm. He left a successful career behind to go into politics after the Conservative party signed the Maastricht Treaty, which advocated “ever closer union” between European nations. He became a founding member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in 1993 and set about campaigning for Britain’s EU withdrawal. In 2014, under Farage’s leadership, UKIP came first in the European election topping the poll in the UK with 4.5 million votes and in doing so became the first political party since 1906 to win a national election that was not the Labour or Conservative parties.
This successful result eventually forced the Conservative Party to hold a referendum on European Union membership. In June 2016, Farage was a leading figure in the campaign to leave. This gained him the name “Mr. Brexit” by Republican Presidential candidate Donald J Trump, whom he supported at a rally on the campaign trail. Nigel Farage was one of the very few that predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidential elections and was the first foreign politician to meet the newly elected President in Trump Tower just days after his historic win.
With it seeming he had won the day, Nigel stepped back from frontline politics, providing political analysis for Fox News in America and presenting a daily show on LBC radio and writing for the Daily Telegraph. In early 2019, he was forced back into Westminster politics in order to stop the Brexit betrayal, founding his new ‘Brexit Party’ to win the May elections in just six weeks of campaigning. This made Nigel the only man in British political history to win two national elections with two different parties.