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The Brexit party has renewed its calls for a leave alliance with the Conservative party in the general election, our Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll reports.

The party’s chairman Richard Tice said latest blockages in parliament showed that “the Tories alone are powerless to deliver Brexit on 31 October”.



The Tory party is struggling to get anything past parliament and the remain establishment, partly because so many within their own ranks are in the remain establishment. The Brexit party has offered to put country before party and work with fellow, committed Brexiteers to secure a proper Brexit. Only a ‘clean-break Brexit’ will fully protect the independence of Britain’s fishing, defence, and trade, and the integrity of our precious union, which the current treaty sells out.

Tice repeated his claim, made on Newsnight earlier this week, that Michel Barnier had said there would be “at least three years of the so-called transition” under the Johnson deal.

The Brexit negotiator’s words in reality referred to the range of time negotiations for a free trade deal would take, something which it is widely assumed could take up to three years.



But others have rejected this saying it would be possible to complete a deal within a year as the starting position was full alignment of trading regulations.

What Barnier said was: “We will have to renegotiate for one year, two years, three years, maybe more in some areas, to rebuild all that will have been pulled apart by the desire of those backing Brexit”.

