The Times June 1st 2016
Farage prides himself on his knowledge of military history (more WW1 than WW2 I think) so we might reasonably assume that the Reform candidate for Makerfield got his comment about El Alamein from the Reform owner himself
As Lord Roberts points out the attribution is to the wrong battle.
Andrew Roberts is a Tory supporting historian who has written on WW2, Napoleon and Churchill. His politics doesn’t mean that he writes bad history, far from it, simply that he is unlikely to write a sequel to E P Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class
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