Hundreds ‘apply’ to be Farage assistant

HUNDREDS of British workers have come forward to challenge Nigel Farage’s claim that only his German wife is capable of doing the job of being his assistant, an employment agency has said.

By The Newsroom

Published 23rd Apr 2014, 23:03 BST

The Ukip leader was forced to defend the decision to employ his non-UK spouse while launching a poster campaign in Sheffield warning unemployed Europeans were “after” people’s jobs in this country. He claimed that “nobody else could do that job”, earning “a very modest salary for working extremely unsociable hours”.

But a fake advert for a similar role placed by the Xpat Jobs agency on its website attracted 764 applications in just 12 hours – 649 of them from UK nationals. Headed “PA Wanted For Top European Politician”, it stipulated that applicants “must be able to work long and some unsociable hours” and described the pay as “modest”. It identified the employer as Ukip, which it described as “a Eurosceptic right-wing populist political party”.

Nigel Farage Sheffield