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Ten Years on, the Financial Times has another lunch with Nigel Farage

In April 2016 FT journalist Henry Mance had lunch with then UKIP leader Nigel Farage.

The full details are here

Lunch with the FT: Nigel Farage

That lunch was at a pub in Leadenhall Market and Simpson in the City of London.

For the 2026 lunch Farage was at his favourite restaurant Boisdale which is in Pimilico

Strictly speaking what the FT published is an interview with Farage over lunch (14^th March) so unlike in 2016 we don’t get full details of what was eaten (drinking is another matter) but enough to get a flavour.

The lunch starts with Farage on Boisdale’s smoking terrace having back to back cigarettes and a gin and tonic.

Back in a private room at Boisdale glasses of sauvignon blanc are ordered, glass rather than a bottle ‘because its Lent’ Farage notes and then a bottle of claret.

Mance notes ‘they say Farage drinks less than he used to. They say a lot of things’

For his main Farage orders a venison pie ‘with a token side order of vegetables’. Farage complains he can’t eat spinach

As the meal draws to a close Mance thinks surely Farage won’t want more alcohol (echoes of their 2016 lunch) but he orders another bottle of claret.

Not quite a Farage Proper Fucking Lunch PFL on the food side it appears but still going strong on the G&Ts and wine. Mance remembers that in 2016 Farage said he had given up drinking port and then drank a lot of it. At least, Lent notwithstanding, Farage is consistent in that.