Nigel Farage wades into Jeremy Corbyn biscuit row as he reveals how he embarrasses his children
Former Ukip leader tells the Loose Women he sleeps naked and was not allowed to get out of the car when he took his children to school
Nigel Farage has waded into the biscuit row and reveals he now has time for normal things like embarrassing his kids.
On today’s Loose Women the former Ukip leader did what Jeremy Corbyn failed to do yesterday and told the nation what his favourite biscuit is.
He has always been pictured with a pint of beer in a pub so it was no surprise when he chose something which isn’t a biscuit at all, saying “bar snacks”.
But when pressed he admitted: “I’m more of a bar snack man but if I had to choose I’d go for jammy dodger.”
Quizzed about the meaning of his biscuit choice on the ITV show he replied: “Jammy – we won the referendum that everybody said we wouldn’t.”
He also revealed he now has more time for dad things like embarrassing his 11-year-old and 16-year-old daughters.
Farage said: “Yesterday morning I actually took the kids to school – [I can do] normal grown up things like that.
“The problem is the surname as there’s not much hiding from it.
“The only proviso was that I did not get out of the car, which is probably wise.”
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When asked by Janet Street Porter how his older children voted in the EU referendum, he said he is pretty confident how they voted.
And the 52-year-old said dissenting voices are allowed at the dinner table – at Christmas.
Audience member Sharon told him she feels like everybody who campaigned for Brexit has left “us all on a sinking ship”.
But as well as agreeing to go for “a glass of something after the show” he told her: “All the evidence is the opposite.
“I’m still an MEP and I’m going to be harrying Mr Juncker and all of them in Brussels and Strasbourg until the day we leave.
“I said I wanted my country back and we got the country back.”
Speaking about the end of the Ukip conference in Bournemouth where he went skinny dipping – but kept his underwear on – he said: “I decided to keep my pants on because I did not want to embarrass the young chaps.”
And after admitting he preferred sleeping naked rather than in pyjamas and favoured cats over dogs, he said he could not choose between Ant and Dec as “they are both wonderful”.
He would snog Angela Merkel, marry Theresa May and avoid Hillary Clinton, but the Prime Minister might not be too willing after his analysis of her performance since taking office.
“The first couple of weeks I thought Theresa May was the toughest leader we have seen since Margaret Thatcher but over the last few weeks it’s been slipping.”
He warned he could be "forced" to return to domestic politics if the Government fails to deliver Brexit.
"I'm going to have some fun for the next couple of years. Why shouldn't I? I've been working 24/7 for a long, long time," he said.
He added: "If the Government fail and don't deliver Brexit, and don't do the job properly, and don't get our British passports back, and don't get our fishing waters back, and don't do what 17 and a half million people have asked them to do, well then I suppose I'd be forced to have a think about going again."
But he said he believes his "job is done" at a domestic level.