Does
@Nigel_Farage really want to become PM? That's what he tells me and
@repubblica
Are you sure you want to become Prime Minister? Because I saw some recent interviews of yours. You seem reluctant.
“I don't want to be boastful. I don't want to sound boastful. I think that's it.”
But being PM doesn't sound like your greatest ambition.
“People struggle to understand this, and I get it. There are two types of people in politics: those who want to be something, and those who want to do something. I couldn't give a damn about titles, rank, honours, knighthoods. I'm not in the least bit interested in anything. I couldn't care. Most people want to be Prime Minister, you know why? Because they want to be Prime Minister.”
But do you want to be PM?
“I want to be Prime Minister because of what I can do with it. That's the point.”
So, you still want to?
“Yeah, unless someone better comes along. Do you know something? If someone better than me comes along, I'll know.”
Once
@Arron_banks told me that "Nigel is not a politician, he is a preacher". Is that right?
“Yes, I think it is. When Steve Bannon first saw me speaking, in 2013 in a town hall in Cambridgeshire, Bannon said afterwards, ‘You're not a politician, you're a prophet,’ which is more or less... So, there is some truth. Yeah, I mean, there is some truth in that. You know, I try to... I've generally been very good at reading the tea leaves and seeing where it's going. I've generally been very good at having a sense of what the great British public think, and the direction that they're moving in. If I'd stayed in business, I'd be very, very rich, but I didn't. I came to do this.”