Last week, the most influential British politician of the last thirty years announced he will stand down as leader of Ukip.

Nigel Farage took my party from a minor gathering on the fringes of British politics to where we are today. Four million votes at the last general election. The biggest delegation of UK MEPs in the European Parliament. An elected MP at Westminster. Representatives in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

And more importantly, he secured the British people a say on our country’s membership of the European Union for the first time in 41 years – and went on to lead us to victory.

Nigel inspired me to enter politics; he took on the establishment and won, he got our country back. We must now build on his legacy.