Mr Farage played a key role in campaigning for the UK to leave the EU, so the former Ukip leader apparently tried everything he could to keep up a good image. According to 2015 book ‘The Bad Boys of Brexit’, Mr Farage used to go to the sauna “every other day” to stop him looking “all damp-faced and shifty”. The author of the book Arron Banks worked with Mr Farage on Leave.EU, an unofficial campaign group supporting Brexit during the 2016 referendum.

Mr Banks claimed these sauna visits were done under the instruction of Mr Farage’s advisor Raheem Kassam.

Mr Kassam would reportedly accompany Mr Farage and more than once he had to physically stop people from taking pictures of the party leader when he got spotted.

Mr Banks wrote: “His advisor Raheem Kassam, a young right-wind firebrand, used to have him in the sauna every other day sweating buckets, so he wouldn’t look all damp-faced and shifty – the dreaded ‘Nixon lip’ – at hustings.”

Former US President Richard Nixon was known for sweating a lot and having to wipe his top lip during debates.

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Mr Banks recalled how Mr Farage’s advisor would help him protect his dignity during these visits.

He said: “On at least one occasion this led to a half-conscious Farage having to avert his eyes as Kassam engaged in a sweaty naked wrestling match with a local idiot who was trying to snap a sly picture of the Ukip leader’s tackle for BuzzFeed.

“It was like a scene from Borat.” 

Borat is a 2006 film starring Sacha Baron Cohen, known for its crude, slapstick humour.

Mr Banks added that Mr Farage was a “workhorse” who could only be persuaded to go on holiday in 2015 with the “lure” of a work-related opportunity in Belize.

This opportunity was a meeting with Lord Michael Ashcroft, a British-Belizean businessman and former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party.

Even on holiday however, Mr Farage was up “at the crack of dawn” to go fishing and spent one evening on the phone dictating an op-ed for the Telegraph after a whole afternoon of drinking.

Mr Banks expressed disbelief at his colleague’s “unbelievable” stamina, commenting: “God knows how he does it.”

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