Former UKIP leader and pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has said he is ready to seek another stint as UKIP leader if the Brexit process is not "back on track" by March next year.

Mr Farage, who quit as leader following the 2016 Brexit referendum result, called on Conservative MPs to submit no confidence letters to get rid of the "appalling" Theresa May.

He said that he would return to the political arena if the Brexit proposals which Mrs May brokered at Chequers last Friday were not ditched.

Speaking on LBC radio, Mr Farage said: "I've already said that if Article 50 gets suspended beyond 29 March, I will put myself back into full-time campaigning.

"I will add to that tonight. Gerard Batten, who is the leader of UKIP and has my confidence and support - his term as leader comes to an end in March of next year.

"There will be a leadership contest within UKIP in March next year. If Brexit is not back on track, if we're not actually going to be leaving and if this Chequers agreement has not been broken, I will very seriously consider putting my name forward to run as leader of UKIP again," he said.

He added: "I can assure any Conservatives listening to this, sitting in marginal seats, who are not prepared to stand up and honour the wishes of the electorate, I will make damn sure in that situation that you all lose your seats.

"Because there are millions of Conservative voters very unhappy indeed."

In a message on Twitter, Mr Farage welcomed Boris Johnson's resignation, and suggested that Environment Secretary Michael Gove should follow him out of government.

Eloise Todd, the chief executive of the Best for Britain campaign, said: "Of course Nigel Farage is so keen to force through Brexit - he's one of the elite establishment figures who have already benefited personally from the 2016 referendum.

"It might be hard to think of a messier, more disastrous situation than the one we're in now - but Farage back in politics is what that looks like."

Mr Farage served as UKIP leader between 2006 and 2009, and returned to the job between 2010 and 2016.