Last night I was honoured to become an MEP for the Brexit Party in the East of England. I must admit there was an element of relief: when you’ve spent six weeks totally immersed in a campaign there’s always the possibility that you’ve become so caught up in all the effort and the drama that you’ve somehow misjudged your prospects of success. Any nerves I might have had were already dissipating by the time the results for my area were declared in Chelmsford just after 10.45pm. By then, the Brexit Party, which I chair, was already producing extraordinary results up and down the country in traditional Tory and Labour strongholds. Just as we expected, voters were punishing the parties that have so abjectly failed to…

Source: The Times May 27, 2019 05:38 UTC