Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage confirmed he will stand in the next general election (Picture: REX/EPA)

Nigel Farage has accused Boris Johnson of ‘going off the rails’ on Brexit and told him to deliver a clean break from the EU or ‘die politically’.

The PM was savaged by the Brexit Party Leader as he outlined plans to stand in a general election today.

Speaking at a Brexit Party event in London, Farage said there was a 50% chance of a new leadership race happening this autumn.

He told the crowd: ‘There is one simple message I want to come out of this hall – we are ready.’


The former UKIP leader warned Johnson that the Brexit party will fight the Conservatives in ‘every single seat up and down the country’ if he tries to revive Theresa May’s deal.

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He attacked her withdrawal agreement as ‘the worst deal in history’ even without the controversial Irish Backstop, and questioned whether the public should trust Boris Johnson on Brexit.



He said:’I have a little bit of difficulty with Boris.

‘When the Chequers agreement led to the withdrawal agreement, or its new proper name, the new European treaty because that is what it is, Boris Johnson wrote in his Telegraph column over and over how we would become a ‘slave state’.

‘He said it was the most disastrous deal and the worst thing that could ever happen to our country.

‘Yet, in his letter to Donald Tusk last Monday, he said that achieving a deal is our highest priority.’

What is the Irish Backstop? The Irish Backstop is a clause in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement to maintain a seamless border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland when the UK leaves the EU. It involves the UK remaining in a customs union until a post-Brexit trade deal is struck with the European Union. In addition, Northern Ireland would remain aligned to parts of the European single market. Hard-line Brexiteers oppose the clause because it would involve the UK retaining a very close relationship with the EU for an indefinite period if no solution has been found for the Irish border. However, the EU insist that any Brexit deal must contain a backstop.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage warns Boris Johnson to deliver a clean break Brexit or ‘die politically’ (Picture: Reuters)

Farage told the crowd a ‘no deal was the only deal’ and urged the PM to deliver a clean break Brexit or face the consequences at the polls.

However, despite delivering some harsh words for Boris, he repeated a message that he would be willing to work with him to deliver the results of the EU referendum.

Mr Farage had appeared on Good Morning Britain earlier today to confirm his Brexit general election plans.

He faced a grilling from co-host Richard Madeley over the Brexit Party’s current position in the polls after announcing he was one of 635 men and women who had passed their assessments and would be able to run for MP in a leadership race.

Madeley suggested the Brexit Party had ‘gone downhill’ since their victory at the European elections in May and wouldn’t win any of those seats.

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Farage hit back and said: ‘A lot of people will not go back to Boris Johnson and the Conservative party whatever they say, because trust is broken’.

Mr Farage told GMB he would ‘work with anybody to get the right result’ and claimed a partnership between him and Boris Johnson would be ‘unstoppable’ in delivering Britain’s departure from the EU.

He added: ‘What we will not do is stand aside and watch Brexit be betrayed for a second time.’

He repeated that stance at the Brexit event, but ruled out working with the Labour, calling it a ‘remain, second referendum party.’

He said The Brexit party may be prepared to work with the Conservatives through a ‘non-aggression pact’ if the only way of achieving a ‘clean-break’ Brexit was a general election.

He clashed with host Richard Madeley over the Brexit Party’s position in the polls (Picture; Rex Features)

However he said Labour has become the reserve of ‘upper middle class globalists’ and called on Brexit-supporting Labour voters in south Wales, the Midlands and the north to join the Brexit party.



His attack on Labour comes as Jeremy Corbyn meets with leading remain supporting MPs to discuss ousting Boris Johnson.

Mr Corbyn said the country needed an ‘injection of democracy’ to resolve the Brexit impasse, which could come through a new referendum, or a general election.

He has pledged to do ‘everything necessary’ to avoid a no-deal Brexit – a scenario which he said would only benefit rich bankers and leave the UK at the mercy of the US.

Boris Johnson has vowed to leave the UK with or without a deal on October 31, but on Monday said he was feeling ‘marginally more optimistic’ about striking a new Brexit deal within the next two months.

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