Alan Sked

Yes.

So Annabel Sanderson, Rupert Lowe, Neil and Christine Hamilton and Godfrey Bloom, and there are others too as well, Alan Sked, Richard North, I could go on.

They describe a malignant narcissist who hates anybody who threatens his crown, just like Richard III.

And you say he's greedy.

Yes.

So Annabel Sanderson, Rupert Lowe, Neil and Christine Hamilton and Godfrey Bloom, and there are others too as well, Alan Sked, Richard North, I could go on.

They describe a malignant narcissist who hates anybody who threatens his crown, just like Richard III.

And you say he's greedy.

And after the COVID problem, we had interest rates on the floor for a while.

So this was sort of wrong, and I watched a Sunday political program, and a guy on there, uh, Professor Alan Sked from the LSE, he was talking the same sort of language that I'd been thinking.

So I reached out to him, met him in London, and I became part of the early days of the Anti-Federalist League.

I wasn't all that keen on the name.

And, you know, you can't say that a, a vote for UKIP is a, is a denied vote for the Conservative Party.

They're, you know, they're not that interchangeable.

But I was potentially responsible for the very nice conservative guy who my vote was more than his loss, and I think that was true across bits of the country.

And where, where exactly was that?

I've known Nigel Farage a long time.

I first met Nigel Farage in the late 1990s at a seminar at the LSE when, when, uh, U- UKIP was run by an academic called Alan Sked.

Uh, and I did manage to get a nib about that, a news and brief in the Financial Times.

[chuckles] Um, we are obviously a very proudly, uh, conservative think tank with, with unmatched roots within the modern Conservative Party.