Nigel Farage is back on the campaign trail but so far he’s riding his Brexit bus solo.

The former Ukip leader headed to Westhoughton, Bolton, in a bid to block a ‘Brexit betrayal’ and ‘chuck’ Theresa May’s Chequers proposal.

Farage can be seen in a video on top of the double decker bus, but his only company is a bunch of photographers.


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Nigel Farge posed on top of his empty Brexit bus (Picture: Getty Images)

Farage is attending a major rally in the town later today, where he will be speaking alongside former Brexit secretary David Davis and Labour Brexiteer MP Kate Hoey.

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‘We have not changed our minds, we want Brexit,’ he told members of the public as he rolled up this afternoon.



The MEP said the prime minister strong message to the EU yesterday was enough to save her job during the Conservative Party conference next week but added that the Chequers deal was ‘dead’.

He claimed the ‘political class’ was planning a ‘major betrayal’ and urged voters to write to their MPs to ensure Brexit is delivered.

The former Ukip leader is back on the campaign trail with his Leave Means Leave bus (Picture: Getty Images)

His first of many stops is in Bolton for a major rally this afternoon (Picture: SWNS)

He said: ‘This is not about party politics. This is above party politics, it is above personal ambition.

‘It is very simple, we want our political class to deliver what was the greatest democratic exercise in the history of this country.

‘We want to be an independent nation.’

Brandishing a ‘Leave Means Leave’ poster he added: ‘And what this campaign intends to do, you can see very clearly here, here are the names of all the MPs and all their contacts and we want people living in this area to go to their MPs and say unless you deliver the Brexit we voted for we will never vote for you again.

The MEP met with locals in Westhoughton (Picture: Getty Images)

Farage is trying to stop a ‘Brexit betrayal’ (Picture: Getty Images)

‘Every single day there’s a negative story about Brexit and what a catastrophe it is.

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‘This is us coming back with a counter campaign.

‘I think if there was a second referendum Leave would win by a lot bigger margin.

‘I think we would collectively stick two fingers up to an establishment that did not listen to the democratic vote – but we are a long way from that.

‘This really is the people versus the politicians. It was during the referendum and it still is today.

‘This is the establishment, not just the British, the global establishment.

‘They do not accept Brexit, they want to overturn it, they want to do it by threatening people and bullying people and we are going to start giving them the argument back in the other direction.’

Farage, the vice-chairman of Leave Means Leave, grabbed a pint at a Wetherspoons pub in Bolton (Picture: PA)

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Farage handed out posters at Westhoughton indoor market posing for selfies before enjoying a pint of ‘Flat Cap’ beer in a Wetherspoons pub over the road, where he shook hands with local well-wishers.

The UK government’s plan for Brexit was agreed by the Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s country residence, Chequers, on 6 July.



It includes an end to the free movement of people, a free trade area for goods under a ‘common rulebook’ and a ‘facilitated customs arrangement’ which aims to maintain easy trade in goods between the UK and the EU while allowing Britain to develop an independent trade policy with the rest of the world.

But May’s plans were dismissed as damaging to the single market and unworkable by EU leaders at a summit in Salzburg on Thursday.

Theresa May spoke after the Brexit summit in Salzburg yesterday (Picture: Getty Images)

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The prime minister has said the Chequers plan is the only one on the table that will work and has demanded ‘respect’ for the UK from the EU.

She concluded her speech by handing the ball to the EU leaders and told them to come back with some real alternatives.

Farage said he was ‘pleased’ to see May sounding ‘a bit tougher’ following her speech at Downing Street.

But added that a ‘huge opportunity missed to push for free trade deal with no political linkage. That is what Brexit voters want.’

He also said: ‘It’s the first time she has said “no deal is better than a bad deal” and actually believed it,’ before telling the EU leaders that ‘enough is enough.’

Enough is enough, time to tell the arrogant, unelected EU bullies where to go. No British Prime Minister should be treated like this. — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) September 21, 2018

Farage wrote on Twitter: ‘Time to tell the arrogant, unelected EU bullies where to go. No British prime minister should be treated like this.’

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The rally later on Saturday at the University of Bolton Stadium, is the first in a number of events across the country organised by Leave Means Leave, the pressure group campaigning for a ‘clean, swift exit’ from the EU.


There will be a major rally in Birmingham on Sunday, September 30, ahead of the Conservative Party Conference in the city, with more events planned in Torquay, Bournemouth, Gateshead and Harrogate during October.

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