Pulled from the tangled wreckage of a plane crash in a remote Northamptonshire field, his face swollen and bloody, his spine chipped and ribs broken, things could hardly have been worse for Nigel Farage.
It would later emerge that the then leader of Ukip had escaped death by a matter of inches. Thanks to a now notorious publicity stunt on polling day of the General Election, Farage crashed to earth suspended upside down in the shattered cockpit, his head almost scraping the ground. If that was a miraculous escape, however, Mr Farage's problems were by no means over.
Because as The Mail on Sunday can today reveal, he would shortly face the arrival of not one but three determined women, all clamouring for his affections and a place by his hospital bedside. After Nigel Farage's horror plane crash in a field in Northamptonshire in , there was not just one but three women rushing to his aid, explains one of them Annabelle Fuller pictured. One of them β as she explains today β was Farage's long-term lover and former political aide Annabelle Fuller, who last week sensationally disclosed she had spent more than a decade as his mistress, before parting company with Ukip amid mental health problems and suicide attempts.
Accusing him of brazen hypocrisy, not just for lying but for breaking his marriage vows despite the party's strong family values stance, she claimed Farage had instructed her to remain silent about their sexual relationship for the sake of protecting the Ukip cause and Brexit. Despite her long relationship with a man she came to regard as her mentor, Ms Fuller was by no means the only woman romantically linked to year-old Farage.
Ms Fuller, 36, said that after Farage was taken to hospital, aides were dispatched to ensure he did not come into contact with his German-born wife Kirsten pictured , or French former waitress Laure Ferrari. And, as she explains, party workers and officials were all-too-well aware of the fact as they battled to ensure that his illicit encounters did not come to light. Today, describing the true extent of Farage's tangled emotional life, Ms Fuller, 36, describes how Farage's well-briefed aides were even dispatched to the entrance doors of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where he was recovering after the light aircraft crash, to ensure she did not come into contact with his German-born wife Kirsten, or French former waitress Laure Ferrari, another woman close to him who has since become his partner.
