When the Brexit party was launched in a metal workshop just outside Coventry back in April, it looked like we were seeing a new Nigel Farage. It was Nigel who arbitrarily decided to stand down 317 Brexit party candidates, all of whom had paid £100 for the privilege, in Tory held seats. It was Nigel who turned Nigel and the Nigel party into an irrelevance. Play Video 1:28 Ex-Brexit party MEP backs Johnson saying Farage is putting leaving EU at risk – videoThe spirit of Nigel lives on, though. First it was delayed for 20 minutes because a Brexit party spokesman chose to have a rival press conference denouncing the breakaway four in an adjacent room.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2019 20:39 UTC