Nigel Farage Insists He Is Not Eyeing Peterborough's Seat In By-Election

5 August 2018, 12:18 | Updated: 5 August 2018, 12:32

Nigel Farage insists he is not looking for a seat at Peterborough's by-election in a bid to become an MP after a newspaper article claimed he was planning a return to frontline politics.

The former UKIP leader labelled an article in which it was claimed he was ready to launch a campaign to become an MP as "fake news".

Nigel Farage said: "All I can say, is that I don't know who your sources are but you got the wrong ones.

"It's completely and utterly untrue!

"In fact, Donald would call it 'fake news'!"

Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage held the newspaper article earlier in his LBC show. Picture: LBC

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