Nigel Farage Brexit party surged to victory while Labour, others slumped

Nigel Farage hailed an ‘amazing’ victory in the European elections today after the Brexit Party crushed both the Tories and Labour and left them facing a crisis over their position on Brexit. 

Despite only being launched six weeks ago, the Brexit Party has won at least 28 MEP seats – with the Conservatives dropping to fifth place across much of the country with just 9 per cent of the vote.

The disastrous showing immediately sparked warnings from would-be leader Boris Johnson that things could get even worse for the Tories if the UK does not leave the EU by the end of October – deal or no deal. 

And Jeremy Corbyn was facing civil war within his party as critics blamed the party’s poor third-place finish on 14 per cent on his failure to back a second referendum. The Remainer Lib Dems surged into second place on 20 per cent with the Greens coming a close fourth on 12 per cent.

A jubilant Mr Farage demanded a role in the next round of negotiations with the EU, threatening to contest a general election.

Speaking this morning, he blasted the Tories for their handling of Brexit but said he would be willing to support a Conservative leader who promises to take Britain out of the EU with No Deal. 

 He said: ‘If we don’t leave in October the Brexit party will go on to a general election.

‘We are happy to help any leader who is genuine about us leaving the EU. We would like to be part of the negotiating team, use us and give us some responsibility, but they need to be prepared to leave with a clean break Brexit. Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab, Michael Gove – all of them voted for Mrs May’s European treaty.

‘It’s all about establishing trust – if the next leader says the same thing then no one is going to trust them.’    

‘This is just the beginning of a new political movement.’ 

Source: DailyMail