Nigel Farage has said he is “skint” after spending 18 years as a Ukip MEP fighting for Brexit.
He told the Daily Mail he was “53, separated and skint” in an interview which also describes how he cannot leave his “midweek home in Chelsea” for a pint for security reasons amid threats and abuse.
Farage, who was accused of hypocrisy for saying he would claim his £73,000-a-year pension from the European Parliament after Brexit, told the paper: “There’s no money in politics, particularly doing it the way I’ve done it, 20 years of spending more than you earn...
“I have big expenses, lots of kids to pay for and things like that.”
Farage has four children from two marriages. His second wife Kirsten Mehr said earlier this year he had moved out of the family home in Kent “a while ago” and
But despite his outgoings, Remainers were not convinced by his claim that he was short on money.
As well as his work as an MEP, the salary for which is £89,000, Farage broadcasts for LBC and lists himself as a contributor to Fox News in America.
Farage said he faced abuse in the streets because of his campaigning on Brexit and could not go out on his own.
He also called the Tory rebels who inflicted a parliamentary defeat on the Government this week “bloody awful people”.
The interviewer wrote these MPs had “pulled the rug from under our EU negotiators this week, betraying 17.4 million Brexit voters”.
The interview did not mention his recent endorsement of Alabama politician Roy Moore, who thinks homosexuality should “probably” be illegal and was narrowly defeated this week.