NIGEL AT NO10
Nigel Farage delivers letter to Downing Street setting out his Brexit demands
NIGEL Farage has arrived at No10 to deliver his Brexit demands to Theresa May on her last day in office as leader.
The Brexit Party boss - despite losing the Peterborough by-election last night - said his party was serious about delivering our EU exit and demanded to help.
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The letter, which has also been sent to the leadership candidates too, lays out what he wants to do to get Brexit done.
It said they campaigned on three simple messages on the election, which they should be allowed to carry out:
- Restore trust in democracy
- A WTO Brexit
- Some of our elected MEPS to play a significant role in the negotiating team from here
"We should firstly review the state of the No Deal preparations, and help advance them as required, to give confidence to the nation that we will be fully ready," he demanded.
And it said the country should not have to "beg for another delay beyond October 31."
Appearing alongside his fellow MEP Richard Tice, he said this morning on the steps of Downing Street it was time to get really ready for No Deal.
Mr Farage said: "While the Government work out who the next prime minister is, we've only got less than five months until we're meant to leave the EU.
"We would love to start helping now.
"We want responsibility, we want to get involved."
Earlier he warned Tory voters today they MUST back his Brexit party or Jeremy Corbyn will sneak into No10 by accident.
It comes hours after his party failed to win its first seat in Parliament by just 600 votes, leaving Labour to secure the seat of Peterborough.
He told BBC Breakfast: "If a few more cons had realised If you want Brexit and you want to stop Jeremy Corbyn, in seats like this, unless you vote for the Brexit party, Labour are going to win.
"That will be a theme of politics going on from here."
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And he added on Radio 4: "If you voted Conservative, you are going to finish up and see a Corbyn government.
"The danger is that, in seats like this, the Conservatives split the Leave vote."
"What you have seen from this result last night is that British politics has fundamentally changed, it is no longer just two parties contesting," he said.
Labour won 10,484 votes to the Brexit Party's 9,801, with the Tories on 7,243.
If the Leave vote for the Tories and Brexit Party had combined and rallied around one candidate then they would have comfortably won.
It shows a chilling story of what could happen across the country and lead to the Labour boss in Downing Street when the next election comes around.
Tory leadership hopefuls Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab warned today that failing to deliver Brexit will "risk delivering Jeremy Corbyn by the backdoor."
But Jeremy Hunt insisted "we will be back" after the Tories deliver our exit.
Jeremy Corbyn said it was a "great win" and represented a rejection of the Conservatives' "disastrous" handling of Brexit.
However, their share of the vote tumbled by 17 percentage points since Fiona Onasanya won the seat for Labour in 2017.
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