Nigel Farage vows to return to frontline politics unless Theresa May burns her ‘Brexit betrayal’ plan
The former UKIP leader, who left the party after Britain voted to leave the EU, said he will return to politics to finish off what he started
NIGEL Farage is poised for a return to frontline politics unless the PM drops her “Brexit betrayal” plan.
The former Ukip boss warned he will be unable to sit on the sidelines if Theresa May drives through her “half-baked” proposal.
He told The Sun on Sunday: “If I have to step back into the fray and do it all again I shall.
“But this time there would be no more Mr Nice Guy. I would knock their legs from underneath them.”
Mr Farage admits he can feel frustration welling up inside him and is already considering his options – either a return to run Ukip or launching a new party.
After 25 years of campaigning to leave the EU, he can see the goal he fought for – and thought he had won after the 2016 referendum - slipping through his fingers.
And he believes Mrs May’s plan must be stopped in its tracks – even if it risks leading to a second in-out vote.
Mr Farage, 54, said: “I’ve been campaigning to leave the EU for a quarter of a century. I believe in it with all my heart and soul and gave up the best part of my adult for it.
“But I’ve been watching recent events with growing dismay and I’m not the only one.
“Little old ladies grab my arm in the supermarket and ask ‘What’s going on? Is it going to happen?’ Well I will do my utmost to make damned sure it Brexit does happen.”
Back in Brussels, the Eurocrats are laughing their socks off at how they have “screwed the Brits."
After the deal was announced, a German MEP told him: “Game, set and match to Monsieur Barnier.”
Mr Farage added: “If we do not get a proper Brexit in any way at all, I will be forced to do something again. There are people sitting in the House of Commons who would regret that very bitterly.
“If I were to enter the political fray it would be the Tories who get hurt in the short term. They would be mullered. I don’t really want to. It’s not a decision I would take lightly or with any glee.
I’m enjoying myself, going to speak in America, popping over to Brussels, doing a programme on LBC…I’m enjoying myself.
“So, I’m not going to re-enter politics lightly but I’m not going to stand aside and do nothing if Brexit is betrayed.”
Mr Farage confesses that with hindsight it was a mistake to leave the battlefield after the referendum and giving Remain campaigners a free run.
We are interrupted by a colleague who reveals the PM is making a statement.
He barks: “Let’s hope she resigns. Put something in the fridge just in case.”
'FIX IT PLEA'
CABINET Ministers made a direct appeal to the PM last night to fix her Brexit deal with Brussels.
Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom issued a warning to Theresa May that there is “more to be done."
She is determined to push for a better framework over the Northern Ireland backstop and insisted: “We do still have more time before the EU Council at the end of the month.”
Ms Leadsom heads the Gang Of Five which includes Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, Penny Mordaunt and Liam Fox.
He believes toppling Mrs May and replacing her with a Brexit believer is the best option.
“If she stays, we don’t get Brexit,” he declared.
“If you put a great big bar of chocolate in front of a six year old kid and take it away, the child goes mad. The kid starts to lose it and behave in ways it wouldn’t normally behave.
“This is exactly what’s happening with the British public. The bar of chocolate was the Brexit vote, the chance of getting back the independence of our nation, making our own laws, controlling our own borders and not wasting all that money and Mrs May wants to take it away.
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“There will be two options for me then. It may be I try to go back to Ukip, which has been through a rather bleak period, and pick up the pieces and if that proves impossible we’ll start something new.
“Do not underestimate this issue. It has already turned British politics upside down – it’s the only issue that can break the two-party system.
“This is visceral. It’s patriotic. It’s about our country. It’s about who we are. This is how these working communities feel.”
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