Nigel Farage says leave would win a second Brexit vote and warns Boris Johnson The Brexit Party leader also said Remainers believe Brexiteers are a low sub-species and morally inferior to them

Nigel Farage said he is sure the leave vote would secure an even larger margin in the event of a second referendum, and warned Boris Johnson against returning from Brussels with Theresa May’s “reheated deal”.

At the Brexit Party conference in London he said: “If we did have to face a second referendum, and provided we were given a proper question with a genuine leave on the ballot paper, I have absolutely no doubt we would vote to leave by a bigger margin than we did back in 2016.”

The audience cheered in response, and Mr Farage added: “But whatever happens, there will not be violent riots on our streets because we have got a well-run, sensible, moderate, democratic party called the Brexit Party.

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“People won’t riot, they’ll come and join the Brexit Party and we’ll do this democratically and peacefully”.

He added that Britain was viewed as a laughing stock and claimed to want to “re-establish where we should be in the world”.

At a rally in London, he said the Tories would lose a huge number of votes when people “realise nothing has changed” if Theresa May’s deal isn’t altered.

They believe they are better than us

Mr Farage founded the Brexit party alongside Catherine Blaiklock in November 2018. He touched on the debate over Mr Johnson’s use of “inflammatory language”, after Jeremy Corbyn and other MPs claimed the Prime Minister was prompting people to act in “disgraceful and abusive ways” towards MPs.

He said there were senior figures in British society who “simply did not accept” the 2016 referendum result and have said Brexiteers are basically stupid and are somehow a low sub-species.

He added: “They have a moral superiority and believe that they are better people than us – and that is where I believe the strong language and bad behaviour begins.”

Mr Farage mentioned John Bercow, Tony Blair and John Major – who were all booed by the audience – before describing Change UK leader Ann Soubry as the “least popular figure with leave voters”.

Don’t trust the Tories

Mr Farage questioned if Mr Johnson is “really, truly a genuine Brexiteer” and warned his party members: “Do not trust the Conservative Party.”

This comes ahead of the Conservative Party Conference which runs from Sunday 29 September to Wednesday 2 October.

He claimed if Mr Johnson campaigned for a no-deal Brexit, the Brexit Party would be willing to sign a “non aggression pact” with the Conservatives in a general election.

Previously, Mr Farage used a newspaper advert to establish how he would not stand candidates against the Conservatives in some parts of the country if Mr Johnson enacted a “clean-break Brexit”.

Under the stated terms, the Brexit Party wouldn’t compete for seats at a general election in areas where the Tories were fighting against the Liberal Democrats or other Remain-backing parties. The Tories have so far refused the pact

He also said the Brexit Party would be the “main challenger” to the Labour Party in “many traditional parts of this country, seats they’ve held for 100 years”.

Mr Farage told Sky News before his party conference speech: “It’s good to hear that a prime minister that is optimistic – but actually Boris Johnson is taking a wrong turn.

“He’s trying to reheat Theresa May’s failed deal, and that is not Brexit. So we’re the only ones that believe in it and we’ve got to fight for it.”

He added: “Do not reheat Mrs May’s deal. That would be surrender”.