Nigel Farage vows to cripple Labour by targeting the party’s Brexit voters after clash with Tom Watson

NIGEL Farage has vowed to cripple Labour by targeting its Brexit voters after a bitter clash with the party’s deputy leader.

Tom Watson blasted the anti-EU campaigner and his new Brexit Party for being on the “far right” yesterday.

The outburst came as he accused his boss Jeremy Corbyn of being “mealy mouthed” and “sitting on the fence” over its support for a second Brexit referendum.

Labour must offer a People’s Vote to defeat Mr Farage’s “backward-looking brand of politics that offers no solutions”, Mr Watson insisted in a withering attack on the hard left Opposition boss in the Observer.

In a bid to hold his bitterly divided party together, Mr Corbyn has insisted a new nationwide poll is only an emergency final option to halt a hard Brexit.

But angry Mr Farage hit back to accuse Labour’s deputy chief of having “broken his promises to the people”.

Mr Farage tweeted: “The second referendum that he backs is a total insult to 5 million Brexit Labour voters.

“I now intend to wholeheartedly target Labour lies and dishonesty in the weeks ahead”.

Mr Farage’s new party has seen a meteoric rise since its launch at the start of the year, and is now on pole to with May 23’s euro elections.

Shock surveys last week revealed the Brexit Party is already on course to decimate the Tory vote, taking as many as half Mrs May’s voters.

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