Nigel Nelson has paid tribute to his "outdated good friend" Patrick O'Flynn, who handed away yesterday on the age of 59 following a brief battle with most cancers.
The information of O'Flynn's demise has shocked many in political and media circles, with tributes pouring in from throughout the spectrum for the journalist who spent greater than 20 years as a parliamentary foyer correspondent.
Information broke yesterday that Patrick O'Flynn had died on the age of 59.
O'Flynn, political editor of the Categorical from the Nineties to 2005, was elected as Ukip MEP for the East of England in 2014.
Talking about his good friend, Nigel Nelson mentioned: "Paddy was an outdated good friend of mine, and we've recognized one another for 20 years, and the final time I noticed noticed him was at GB information, and that was only some months in the past and he regarded actually, actually match and wholesome."
Martin Daubney responded: "Actually, he sat the place you sat and I mentioned to him, Pat, you look actually, rather well. How are you doing? Oh thanks. He mentioned he was simply he was on his toes."
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Reform UK chief Nigel Farage led the tributes yesterday, saying: "So unhappy to listen to of the passing of Patrick O'Flynn.
"Paddy was an ideal journalist, an ideal thinker, an ideal patriot and a titan of our joint trigger. Thanks Paddy."
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson described O'Flynn as "a massively unique journalist throughout the causes of the present discontent marketing campaign."
The Social Democratic Get together, which O'Flynn joined in 2018 after leaving UKIP, mentioned it was "devastated" by the information, calling him a "nice journalist, improbable MEP, true patriot, & most of all an exquisite man, he shall be sorely missed."
Within the Home of Commons, Reform UK MP Richard Tice formally acknowledged O'Flynn's passing, telling fellow MPs: "I placed on report of the Home, together with your permission, the unhappy passing yesterday of Patrick O'Flynn.
"A political journalist well-known to many honourable members of this Home. He died after a brief battle with most cancers."
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle responded along with his personal tribute: "Patrick was an extended serving and effectively revered member of the foyer.
"I’m positive the entire Home will want to be part of me in sending our condolences to his household. For any individual who was taken so younger."
Christopher Hope added: "A fantastic man taking so younger. We miss Patrick and we ship our greatest needs to his household."
O'Flynn was instrumental in spearheading the Each day Categorical's marketing campaign for Britain to go away the European Union, a trigger he championed all through his profession.
He left the Ukip frontbench in 2017, citing disagreements over the get together's course and its lack of assist for his centrist financial values. He subsequently joined the Social Democratic Get together in 2018.
In December 2019, simply earlier than Britain's departure from the EU, O'Flynn mirrored on how his decade started by launching the Categorical marketing campaign to get Britain out of the EU, "a lot to the bemusement of Foyer colleagues and the overwhelming majority of MPs."
He’s survived by his spouse, Carole Ann, who additionally wrote for the Each day Categorical, in addition to his son and daughter.