Success would give Nigel Farage’s party its first MP just eight weeks after it was formedIf the Brexit party wins the Peterborough byelection, it would return its first MP to Westminster just eight weeks after it was launched – a trajectory that took Nigel Farage’s previous party, Ukip, more than two decades. The Brexit party candidate, local entrepreneur Mike Greene, concedes that the lack of election experience and voter knowledge is proving tricky. At a heavily staffed Brexit party stall in the centre of Peterborough, John Stanyer, a former local Tory party chair who has left his Cumbria home for a week of volunteering, says he has bumped into several other ex-Tories. “I’ve worked with them on a dozen campaigns for the Conservatives and they’re now all here, working for the Brexit party,” he says. “But I might well vote Labour this time,” Porsz says.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2019 17:35 UTC