Quite. He was so influential that he wasn't even part of the official leave campaign. A leader of a minor party who created a splash for a couple of years only to vanish into political obscurity - an English Pierre Poujade
I don't see that at all. CMD called a referendum because he couldn't control his own party and wanted to shut up the likes of IDS, Gove, Davis etc. Farage had nothing to do with that. Nor was Farage chosen to lead the official Leave campaign, indeed many of the Leave campaigners were disowning...