Former UKIP leader and current television presenter Nigel Farage recently stopped at an Aylesbury pub to film a live Q and A.
The 58-year-old, who is employed by GB News, visited the Dairy Maid pub on Dunsham Lane as part of his ‘Farage at Large’ segment, which was broadcasted on Thursday, May 26.
Around 100 people attended the venue to partake in the question and answers session, which saw Farage talk about the current immigration figures, the economy, as well as interviewing Olympian and Paralympians from the town.
Nigel Farage was in Aylesbury on May 26 (screengrab from GB News' YouTube channel)
Topics such as HS2 were also brought to attention in the one-hour live broadcast.
Once the show concluded at 8pm, he then spoke to those in the crowd and posed for pictures.
Prior to his visit, Mr Farage said: “Buckinghamshire is always said to be for the gin and jags set, the affluent.
“We are coming to Aylesbury to show that this image does not reflect the lives of most people here.
Looking forward to talking Energy, the Partygate Distraction Tax with @Nigel_Farage @GBNEWS for @iealondon live from Aylesbury and the Dairy Maid pub, coming up after the hour #FarageAtLarge
— Andy Mayer (@mayerandrew) May 26, 2022
“I expect the cost of living and falling confidence in our leaders to be big themes.”
At the time of writing, the 60-minute show was viewed 10,130 times on YouTube, with tens of thousands more watching the episode on television.
Describing the crowd as ‘enthusiastic’, the public figure also mentioned how he campaigned in the county for several years during his UKIP days, and how he was nearly killed in a plane crash near the town.
On the day of the 2010 general election (Thursday, May 6, 2010), a then 46-year-old Farage suffered a broken sternum, ribs and a punctured lung when a two-seater PZL-104 Wilga aircraft, flying a pro-UKIP banner, crashed in a field in Buckingham.
It was revealed in a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, that the banner got caught in the vehicle’s tailplane, forcing the nose down.
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Justin Adams, the pilot who was flying the plane, was eventually charged with making threats to kill Farage and an AAIB official involved in the investigation into the accident in separate incidents that same year.
Nigel Farage: After the plane crash, I lit a fag. Not a great idea close to aviation fuel http://t.co/3sxEPvyEjk pic.twitter.com/OuJy9fc1zq
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 13, 2015
In April 2011, he was found guilty of making death threats and given a two-year supervised community order.
He was then found dead in December 2013.
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