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Nigel Farage struggled to contain his irritation on Good Morning Britain today after host Charlotte Hawkins pointed out an issue with Brexit stats.

The Brexit Party emerged as the clear winner of the European elections last night with a third of the vote and Farage said that he would end his sobriety with a beer to celebrate, joking that the "wheels would come off".

But Charlotte, who was presenting the show with Richard Madeley today, spoilt his mood by saying: "If you add up all the pro-remain parties they did get a bigger percentage - 35.8 per cent vs the Brexit party 31.6 per cent. So the pro-remain parties altogether did get a bigger percentage."

Farage raged: "This is absolute tosh! If you want to look at it that way..."

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Charlotte interjected: "Well it's the facts."

"It is not a fact, alright!" Farage exclaimed, outraged. "Add up the Brexit party vote, add up the UKIP vote. Let me finish! Add to that the Conservative vote, that's still a party that says we're going to leave, and you will find that leave beat remain.

"What you find is that overall, right now, our country is 52: 48 in favour of leaving! We're supposed to be a democracy! We were promised that this would be implemented and I'm really tired of all these Remainers constantly moaning about every single election which they leave."

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Earlier, Farage said he had won the most seats in the European election because of his "simple message".

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We set it up and of course we had no ground campaign, no branches, and yet with a big, simple message, which is we've been badly let down by two parties who have broken their promises, we have topped the poll in a fairly dramatic style...

"If you look across the country it's about 52:48 - we're pretty much where we were three years ago.

"Things haven't changed, people haven't changed their minds."

*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV