Nigel Farage is all smiles (Picture: Getty Images)

In a not too distant past, Nigel Farage was already planning for the ‘worst’.

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ICYMI – last month he announced that he would fight for a second referendum on Britain in Europe if the remain campaign won by a narrow margin.

Calling a small defeat for his leave camp ‘unfinished business’, he predicted a second referendum on Europe.

He based this on 52% voting in, 48% out.

Back then, he told the Mirror: ‘In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.’


And here we are today:

Britain, as shown in the Statista graphic, has voted to leave the European Union by 52% out, 48% in and a triumphant Nigel Farage is all smiles.



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UKIP Leader Nigel Farage celebrates with his supporters at at Leave.EU campaign party in London where he claimed victory for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum (Picture: PA)

He announced the out campaign’s victory as soon as more than half the votes had been counted, and declared today ‘UK’s Independence Day.’

Speaking to a Leave.EU campaign party earlier this morning, he said: ‘I now dare to dream that the dawn is coming up on an independent United Kingdom.’

‘We fought against the multinationals, we fought against the big merchant banks, we fought against big politics, we fought against lies, corruption and deceit, and today, honesty, decency and belief in nation I think now is going to win.’

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