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Nigel Farage and Strictly Come Dancing flop Ann Widdecombe were cheered as the unlikely duo held a Donald Trump-style Brexit Party rally.

In scenes that will unleash fresh worry for the beleaguered Tories, the leading Leave backers received a rousing reception from hundreds of supporters at their event in Peterborough, Cambs.

Guests told the Mirror Theresa May had “betrayed” Brexiteers as they tipped Mr Farage's new outfit to top the polls at the European elections on May 23.

Taking to the stage in the cathedral city where 61% of people voted to quit the EU, the party leader railed against high-profile Remainers.

“What we have had is three years of broken promises, three years of our decision being constantly watered-down, being told we didn't know what we voted for,” he claimed

“How dare you Nick Clegg. How dare you Tony Blair . How dare you George Osborne. How dare you Anna Soubry.”

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Pantomime-style scenes unfolded as the crowd booed mentions of the Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn and the BBC.

Miss Widdecombe blasted “patronising nincompoops” who claim Brexiteers did not know what they were voting for.

“We have been comprehensively betrayed,” she raged.

Branding Mrs May "a nincompoop”, she added: “She has not got the leadership skills required to be a Brown Owl."

Adoring fans lapped it up - and joined in as they shouted back answers back to questions from Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice.

“Does Theresa May believe in democracy?” he asked.

“No!” roared back the audience.

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JD Wetherspoon pub chain boss Tim Martin called for a boycott of European goods, telling guests: “We should use our economic power to buy British and buy non-EU.”

Faulty technology marred the start of the 90-minute rally as Mr Tice tried to introduce a slick video on a big screen.

First there was nothing, then activists saw a TV test card, followed by silent footage of Mr Farage speaking on top of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Only later did the audio cough into life.

Brexiteers, some wearing Brexit Party t-shits and clutching placards saying “Brexit Party – Change Politics For Good” - queued for at least an hour before doors opened at the Kingsgate Conference Centre, three miles from the city centre.

Their verdict on the Brexit Party's rise was devastating for Mrs May – and a boost for Mr Farage's already-inflated ego.

Care assistant Lisa Smith, 50, from Devon, took time out from visiting family to attend the rally.

She said: “I have been a Tory voter since I was 18.

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“Margaret Thatcher was my first vote, but after the shambles of the last three years there's no way in the world I would vote Tory again.

“One hundred per cent I feel betrayed.”

Her pal Marie Vidler, 49, a housewife from Wisbech, Cambs, described herself as a lifelong Tory.

But she beamed: “I love Nigel Farage, he's the only person that has made the effort.

“I wanted to come and shake the man's hand.

“Everyone else is too frightened to stand up and be counted. What's happened is a disgrace, an outrage.

“It's about democracy and if they deny us this, what else are they going to do in future?

“We are normal people who never normally get political.

“The Brexit Party are going to absolutely walk the European elections, they will smash it.”

Retired engineer Alan Culligan, 66, of Norfolk, switched from UKIP to the “fantastic” Brexit Party.

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He fumed: “I am here to support a party that believes in democracy.

“Get rid of the rubbish, get someone new in.

“We want a big broom to sweep them all out.”

Businesswoman Susan Howarth, 64, from North Beds, also heaped praise on Mr Farage, a former Tory, who led UKIP four times and failed seven times to get elected to Parliament.

“Nigel Farage has come back again for all the people like us,” she gushed.

“This MEP election I will vote for them, without a doubt.”

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Sales assistant Tess Wakeford, 48, from St Neots, Cambs, said: “I'm fed up with how prolonged Brexit has been.

“We should have left on March 29. I used to be a Conservative voter but I stopped voting for them a few years ago.”

She added: “There haven't been any real alternatives to the Tories but now this is a real alternative.”