Ukip leader Nigel Farage briefly dropped his grinning-bloke mask yesterday and spewed out a spirited defence of his rich City mates.
Former City commodity broker Mr Farage spoke out after an EU court over-ruled opposition from the British government to a new tax on financial transactions.
Mr Farage fumed: “This is a deliberate assault on the City of London.


While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL

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