A BBC pundit and ex-Communist is to stand for Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party as he vows to win millions of voters from Labour.

The ex-UKIP leader is expected to reveal Claire Fox as one of five new candidates for the party’s European Election line up.

3 Former BBC pundit Clair Fox is expected to be named as one of five new candidates for the Brexit party at the European elections Credit: Alamy

3 Nigel Farage hopes his new candidate will help win millions of Labour voters Credit: PA:Press Association

The writer and broadcaster — who joined the Revolutionary Communist Party as a student — slated Theresa May’s handling of Brexit at the weekend.And she signalled her upcoming move by predicting that “smeared and insulted” Leave voters would shock Conservative and Labour Party politicians.

She stormed: “I think far more is at stake now than whether we are in the EU or not. What’s at stake is democracy.”

The move comes as the pro-EU Change UK prepare their own ‘official’ launch by revealing their own European Election line up in Bristol later today.

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Sources claim the would-be MEPS will include former Tory, Labour and Lib Dem politicians as well doctors, teachers and nurses.

Ms Fox – founder of the Institute of Ideas think tank – has regularly appeared on both BBC Question Time and Any Questions.

Nigel Farage’s new party last week topped European Elections polls just days after launching with a forecast 27 per cent of the vote.

He unveiled Jacob Rees Mogg’s sister Annuziata as his first MEP candidate and has also signed up former British Chambers of Commerce chief John Longworth.

A shock poll at the weekend claims as many as 40 per cent of Tory councillors would back the new party if EU elections take place on May 23.

Nigel Farage promised on Sunday to cripple Labour by targeting party’s Brexit voters as he clashed with the opposition’s deputy leader Tom Watson.

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He said Mr Watson’s call for a second referendum was a “total insult” to Labour’s five million Leave voters.

And he said: “I now intend to wholeheartedly target Labour lies and dishonesty in the weeks ahead.”

Speaking to The Sun earlier this month Mr Farage vowed the new Brexit Party would smash the Tories and lead a democratic “revolution”.

3 Jacob Rees Mogg’s sister Annuziata was the Brexit party's first MEP candidate Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Jacob Rees-Mogg's SISTER Annunziata quits Tories to join Nigel Farage's new Brexit party