Despite

his protestations that ‘there’s no money in politics’, Brexit is proving good for Nigel Farage’s finances.

His aptly named company, thorn in the side, has seen its assets more than double, from £78,000 to £158,000, in the year since the eU referendum.

While money he owes to creditors has risen considerably, the company’s reserves have shot up by more than 50 per cent from £62,000 to £94,000. Former stockbroker Farage is vague about his company’s function. At Companies House it is described confusingly as ‘other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified’.

But one certainty is that it has been on an upward spiral since it filed its first accounts in 2012, with reserves of just £3,000.

Last December, Farage bemoaned being ‘53, separated and skint’ after splitting from his second wife, Kirsten.