What is The Brexit Party, how is Nigel Farage involved and when is its launch?
NIGEL Farage is returning to frontline politics in a new political guise called The Brexit Party.
He is on a mission to rectify what he sees as the ‘establishment’s failure to deliver Brexit.
What is The Brexit Party?
The Brexit Party is a new right-wing party with a populist outlook.
In a Twitter message it said: “The establishment have failed us. They are not up to the job of delivering Brexit. We need new leaders who can lead us out of the EU.”
Farage said: “I said in 2013 that Ukip was going to cause an earthquake in British politics and I think we can safely say we did that.
“The ambition now is to cause a revolution in British politics – and to end the two-party structure as it is, it’s just not working.”
He added: “We hope to have a profound effect on the Conservative Party and to shift the centre of gravity once more.”
Mr Farage accused the PM of turning Britain into a “laughing stock on the world stage” over Brexit.
A spokesman for the party told The Sun Online: “We are standing for the European elections on a ticket of respecting the referendum and trying to restore some hope and trust in politics.”
How is Nigel Farage involved?
Farage is the founder of the new right-wing party.
He founded the new political movement in an attempt to “fight back against the betrayal of democracy” by Theresa May, as he sees it.
Confirming he will stand to become an MEP, Mr Farage said the party had been inundated with “just under 1,000” requests from people wanting to be a candidate.
He said the “Westminister bubble” had completely misunderstood the mood of people across the country – who just want to leave the EU.
The MEP left Ukip in December 2018 after 25 years.
UKIP won the European Elections in 2015 with 27 per cent of the vote.
Bookies have made the Brexit Party second favourites for the European Elections at 3-1, behind Labour at 5-4.
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When is its launch?
The new political party officially launches on Friday April 12, 2019.
It’s leader Nigel Farage is launching the party at BG Penny & Co in Longford, Coventry.
It is then holding a launch rally at Birmingham’s ICC in Hall 1 on April 13.