Nigel Farage and Annunziata Rees-Mogg at the launch of the Brexit Party’s European parliament elections campaign in Coventry

Nigel Farage has announced Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister as a candidate for his new Brexit Party in the European elections.

Annunziata Rees-Mogg told the party’s launch in Coventry that she had been a member of the Conservatives since 1984 but that Brexit was a “fight we must win”. Last year Mr Rees-Mogg was quoted describing his younger sister as “my Brexit conscience who ensures I do not go soft”.

Mr Farage said the Brexit Party will be similar to Ukip but without the influence of the far right. It will have the same policies as his former party but be “deeply intolerant of intolerance” he said at its launch in Coventry.

He also predicted that his party could win the European elections and “put the fear