He could be celebrating soon (Picture: Wenn/PA)

The Brexit Party are on course to win the European elections if latest polls are accurate.

Nigel Farage’s new party is 15 points ahead of the Tories, according to YouGov.

The most recent poll suggests they are well in the lead with 28 per cent of the vote, with Labour in second place with 22 per cent.

The Tories are a distant third with 13 per per cent, only three points ahead of the Green Party and Change UK.


Behind them, the Lib Dems hold 7 per cent of the vote and UKIP are on 5 per cent.

The poll was conducted for Hope Not Hate.



It indicates a major shake-up could be coming if the UK takes part in the European elections, which are less than a month away.

The Brexit Party is in the lead (Picture; YouGov)

The prime minister has insisted she wants Brexit to be complete before May 23.

However, the EU granted Britain an extension until Halloween this year, so taking part in them looks likely.

The latest polls shows that the Brexit party has increased its lead by one point since launching its election campaign.

It comes as Former shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe said she would return to politics to join the Brexit Party.

Mrs Widdecombe, 71, told the Daily Express: ‘The public needs to send a very clear message and that is we expect the vote to be respected so just get on with the job of getting us out of the EU.’

The Tories are facing big losses (Picture: Getty)

The former minister has been a member of the Conservatives for 55 years, but has put her retirement on hold to ‘campaign vigorously’ for Farage’s party in the upcoming European elections.

Another of the new party’s candidates will be Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata, standing in the East Midlands region.

She had been a long-standing Tory party member and stood unsuccessfully to become an MP twice.

YouGov political research manager Chris Curtis has said the UK is set for ‘another Farage-shaped upset’ in the polls.

He wrote in the Guardian: ‘It is entirely plausible that we are facing another Farage-shaped upset at the ballot box. While there are more than five weeks of campaigning to go, I certainly wouldn’t bet against him.’

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