Farage hints he may be part of forces with Boris over their ‘Brexit legacies’
Nigel Farage on Sunday hinted he and former prime minister Boris Johnson may be part of forces to defend their “Brexit legacy”.
The main Brexiteer stated as much as 10 Conservative MPs might be keen to defect to a brand new celebration.
Mr Farage stated: “I see a bigger gap for insurgency today than I did before”. He claimed to have spoken to Mr Johnson’s workforce.
The Tories’ former chief has received no future within the celebration “whatsoever”, Mr Farage insisted.
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood described Mr Johnson’s resignation as “akin to mutiny”. His colleague Tim Loughton wished Boris to “shut up and go away”.
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Both Mr Johnson and Mr Farage have warned of a plot to overturn the 2016 Brexit referendum. The former Ukip chief stated on Sunday: “If he [Johnson] wants to defend his Brexit legacy, I want to defend my Brexit legacy too.
“Would there be a possibility of a new coming together on the centre-Right?
“It would be Boris Johnson, there would be other MPs that would join in with this as well.”
He added: “I have discussed it with people very close to him and around him.
“I don’t think he has got any future in the Conservative Party whatsoever.
“This idea that he would be allowed to fight a safer seat than Uxbridge…well hang on.
“He has effectively gifted Uxbridge to the Labour Party and who knows, the other seats could go to the Lib Dems.
“He will be seen to be doing damage to the party. His allies are calling for a civil war.
“Boris Johnson’s road with the Conservative Party is coming to an end.”
The former Ukip and Brexit Party chief stated he and Mr Johnson have been on the “same side” of the “biggest constitutional question we were facing in our lifetimes”.
Comparing the surge in Ukip help between 2012 and 2015 and potential pacts with Tory MPs, Mr Farage stated: “Is Johnson
somebody who would want to be part of a new attempt to break the mould of British politics, or would he rather be on the after-dinner speaking circuit?
“I look at reform and, you know, I’m not actively involved in it at the moment, but I think the gap for another insurgency is actually bigger than it was 10 years ago.”
Mr Farage was requested if any Conservative MPs have gotten in touch who is perhaps concerned with a “gap in the political market”.
He stated: “The Red Wallers know they’re going to lose their seats… and if there was a coming together on the centre-Right, which is where the gap is, I think quite a few would.”
On what number of, he replied: “Potentially, double figures.”
He added: “I think it needs to be more than just me, you know? You can have one person leading a party into a European election or something like that. A general election, you’ve got to have a range of talents.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, I don’t know what Boris Johnson’s going to do, but I see a bigger gap for insurgency today than I did before.”
Anger is constructing throughout the Conservative Party, with one MP accusing Mr Johnson of abandoning his colleagues.
Mr Ellwood, chair of the defence choose committee, stated: “It is a grave moment for our party. Johnson has departed in his own style, kicking and screaming with so much drama, inflicting damage as he goes.
“Johnson quit not only kicking the milk bottles on the way out but rallying other MPs to follow in order to inflict maximum damage to the party he claims to support.” He added: “His actions are akin to mutiny.”
Meanwhile, Mr Loughton stated: “My hopes for the future of Boris Johnson is that he will shut up and go away and let us get on with the business of running the country.
“Boris is no longer the prime minister. He hasn’t been prime minister for some time.
“His sad demise was brought about entirely at his own doing, frankly. And he’s now decided unilaterally to leave Parliament before the report on him has actually been published and voted on and now appears to be blaming the Prime Minister for some sort of plot.
“I’m a Conservative Member of Parliament. I’m not a member of the Boris party. And frankly, the mob – the mates of Boris – need to remember they are Conservative MPs.
“So, Boris, thank you very much for your service. Now just keep quiet and let the grown-ups in government who want to do government… get on with that job.”