A vote for Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party in the European elections is a vote for a “Donald Trump Brexit”, Jeremy Corbyn has warned.

Speaking at the launch of Labour’s Euro campaign on Thursday, Corbyn also said the party would only back “the option of a public vote” if a “sensible” Brexit deal cannot be agreed and there is not a general election.

The Labour leader said only his party could “see off the Farage snake oil”.

“The Brexit Party is in fact the no-deal party”, the Labour leader told voters in Gillingham. “And for millions no-deal would mean no jobs, an economic shock threatening entire industries and – here in Kent – turning the M20 into a lorry park.”

“It would be an elite Brexit that would only work for the richest,” Corbyn continued.

“It would be a Donald Trump Brexit, leaving us at the mercy of the reckless and bellicose US administration,” he added, warning that a Nigel Farage Brexit was one for “conspiracy theorists” and those “who see Muslims and migrants or George Soros as their enemy”.

Corbyn’s attack on the leader of the newly-formed Brexit Party came just days after Farage revealed that 88,000 thousands people had joined the group since its launch last month.