Despite being paid three times the average UK salary, having his own chauffeur and pocketing tens of thousands of pounds in expenses every year, Nigel Farage has complained he is the "poorest man in politics".
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Speaking on a spin-off Gogglebox episode he sits with the show's resident posh couple Steph and Dom Parker, and insists he has meagre finances even though he takes home a £79,000 wage per year.
Glugging champagne, beer and wine with the couple, he enjoys some cigarettes and explains: "I don't think I know anybody in politics as poor as we are.", referring to he and his wife Kristen Mehr who live on the Kent border, in a house worth over half a million pounds.
He goes on to add: "We don't drive flash cars, we don't have expensive holidays, we haven't done for ten years."
The Times claim that Ukip pay their party leader £60,000-a-year in chauffeur allowance, and among other expenses he earns a daily subsistence allowance of £250 every time he attends the European Parliament.
Farage also takes a monthly EU allowance of £3,580 to cover travel in the UK, office management and running costs, and his first-class travel to the continent is also covered.
Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt has teased Farage's Gogglebox appearance as a "rip-roaring, alcohol-fuelled watch" where "he gets p***** with them, but they also give him a grilling."
At Home with Steph and Dom will air on Channel 4 at 10pm, Monday December 15.
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