Nigel Paul Farage (; born 3 April 1964) is a British activist, political commentator, broadcaster and former politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and as Leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was the host of "The Nigel Farage Show", a radio phone-in on the Global-owned talk radio station LBC, from 2017 to 2020.