Pursuits
Farage Resigns as UKIP Leader After ‘Winning Country Back’
- UKIP chief joins Cameron, Johnson in stepping aside after vote
- Tells reporters he’ll watch Brexit negotiations ‘like a hawk’
Farage Resigns as UKIP Leader Following Brexit
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Nigel Farage resigned as leader of the U.K. Independence Party, saying that his victory in the referendum on leaving the European Union represented a career high to go out on.
Farage, 52, follows Prime Minister David Cameron as the second party leader to quit following the June 23 vote to unhitch the U.K. from the EU after more than four decades. Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who led the Vote Leave campaign, said last week that he wouldn’t seek to contest the Conservative Party leadership and replace Cameron.