FORMER Ukip leader Nigel Farage will be returning to Clacton…this time taking to the stage of the Princes Theatre.

The charismatic politician will host ‘An evening with Nigel Farage’ at the theatre, in Station Road, on October 8.

The venue is where Ukip saw its first MP elected during the Clacton by-election in 2014.

Mr Farage is no stranger to Clacton, having visited the town numerous times on the campaign trail.

“Unlike most politicians, Nigel Farage had a successful career in business before he stood for office, working on the City metals exchange,” say promoters.

“He gave up that career not to feather his own nest, but to campaign for a cause he believed in, becoming a founding member of the UK Independence Party in the early 1990s, and its first ever election candidate in 1994.

“Ukip was founded to campaign against Britain’s membership of the EU and restore its status as a free-standing, self-governing democracy with an independent voice in the councils of the world.

“It was not a fashionable cause among the elite politicians and privileged commentariat, but Nigel stuck by it faithfully.

“In time, he built the party up from winning a handful of votes in its early days to coming first in the European elections of 2014.

“One year on, he achieved a record four million votes for the party at the General Election, defying all odds to make Ukip the third-largest political force in the country.

“Nigel is widely recognised as the man whose relentless campaigning forced the ruling Conservative Party, which had been haemorrhaging votes to Ukip, to finally offer a referendum on EU membership before that General Election - a promise they were held to after winning a small and unexpected parliamentary majority.

“The history of not just the United Kingdom, but of Europe and the world is changed because of him, and his place within it is etched in stone.”

Tickets cost £25 and are available from the Princes Theatre box office on 01255 686633.