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Hundreds of British workers have challenged Nigel Farage’s claim that only his German wife is capable of being his assistant, an employment agency revealed yesterday.
The Ukip leader was forced to defend the decision to employ his non-British spouse at the same time as launching a poster campaign warning that unemployed Europeans were “after” people’s jobs in this country.
He told the BBC that “nobody else could do that job,” earning “a very modest salary for working extremely unsociable hours for me and being available up to seven days a week.”
But a fake advert for a similar role placed by agency Xpat Jobs on its website attracted 764 applications in just 12 hours — 649 of them from British nationals.
Headed “PA wanted for top European politician,” it stipulated that applicants “must be able to work long and some unsociable hours up to seven days a week” and described the pay as “modest.”
The firm said it would pass on the best 25 CVs to Mr Farage.
