Laure Ferrari

Laure Ferrari (born 1980 (age 37) ) is a French politician who has worked for several right-wing to far-right political organizations and parties, including the French nationalist party Debout la France.

Ferrari is the girlfriend of former MEP and UKIP leader Nigel Farage, best known for his successful Brexit campaign. Ferrari's first meeting with Farage was in 2007 when she was working in Strasbourg as a waitress.

Laure Ferrari made acquaintance with then leader of UKIP Nigel Farage 2007 in Strasbourg, while working as a waitress, which led her to start a political career.

First Farage gave her a job as a parliamentary assistant in charge of environmental issues.

Subsequently, she was made director of public relations for the British delegation of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) parliamentary group (2009–2014), which later became the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group.

The EFD/EFDD was at the time co-chaired by Nigel Farage and Francesco Speroni.

In this context she met Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, leader of the far-right Eurosceptic French party "France Arise" (Debout la France), itself a member of the Alliance for Direct Democracy (ADDE), founded by Ukip.

For Debout La France she first worked as a departmental secretary in Bas-Rhin and then as a European affairs delegate in party's national office.

Ferrari was head of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), a Eurosceptic think tank, which was accused in 2017 of having illegally diverted public money to the benefits of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

Ferrari worked for Farage as his EU parliamentary aid and in 2017 stayed at his home in London.

Ferrari travelled out to Queensland in Australia to greet Farage on his exit from I'm A Celebrity in 2023, when he finished third in the public vote.

She did not run for a second term, but instead focused on her new role as head of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE), a Eurosceptic think tank, which was accused in 2017 of having illegally diverted public money to the benefits of UKIP.

UKIP was under investigation for having received over £400,000 in donations from the think tank prior to the UK General Election and the Brexit referendum.

In January 2017, she was founding member of "The Mouvement / Le Mouvement" together with Mischaël Modrikamen and his wife Yasmine Dehaene-Modrikamen.

Ferrari was also founding member of "The Mouvement," together with Mischaël Modrikamen and his wife Yasmine Dehaene-Modrikamen, which in 2018 was joined and promoted by Steve Bannon.

Although Modrikamen had envisioned the Movement to become and alliance of populist proponents in Europe and abroad, the project did not catch attention until July 2018 when Steve Bannon declared to work on a European alliance of far-right forces.