Nigel Farage is striding across the lobby of a glitzy hotel in Orlando when he is interrupted, not once but three times, by admirers. The hotel is hosting the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of extremely online activists from across the US, at which Farage is a star speaker.
The former UKIP leader, Brexit champion, and now television presenter on a small right-wing news channel, has ceased to be a mainstay of British politics. He no longer enjoys a constant presence on the pages of British newspapers. It was, ironically, his lifelong ambition and crowning achievement – Britain’s exit from the European Union – that robbed him of that attention.
