Ukip leader sets out his vision for a ‘self-governing, self-confident’ country in the event of a vote to leave the EU

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David Cameron will not remain as prime minister if voters back Brexit on 23 June, Nigel Farage has claimed.

The Ukip leader told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show that voters have the chance to make Britain a “self-governing, self-confident” country by supporting the Leave campaign at the forthcoming referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU.

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He also said he believed a vote to leave the EU would force Cameron from No 10.

Farage said: “If we win the referendum we have to make sure that a British government carries out the will of the people.

“I have seen referendums all over Europe where the people’s voice has been ignored.

“So Ukip being strong and making sure that the government and the prime minister - which won’t be David Cameron in my view - but whoever it is, making sure they do go for Article 50 of the treaty and start the process of political divorce.”

Farage was also asked to set out his vision of a post-Brexit Britain.

“Self-governing, self-confident and much more global in outlook,” he said.

“We have become too obsessed with Europe. It’s an important market place but there is a big world out there.”

Farage made the case for increased social mobility when he was asked what sort of country Ukip would deliver if it was in power.



He said: “The big thing I can see is there are 7% of people in this country, people like you and me, whose parents are rich enough to send us to private school and that 7% are now dominating business, politics, the media, even sport and the rest of the population is being left behind.

“I think we need a lot more social mobility in this country. I think much of that comes through the education system.”