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Euro Elections: Nigel Farage predicts disaster for Labour at polls next week


“The passion seems even stronger in Labour Leave areas than in Conservative Leave areas,” he said during a visit to Pontefract, West Yorkshire, part of Labour MP Yvette Cooper’s constituency, where almost 70 percent voted to leave. Vulnerable “Whether that’s because people in the north of England wear their hearts on their sleeves more, I don’t know.” A YouGov poll put Mr Farage’s party in the lead and on course to get 34 per cent of the votes next Thursday.

The Conservatives are down in fifth place with 10 percent behind the Green Party on 11 percent. Labour are on 16 and the Liberal Democrats 15.

During Mr Farage’s visit, which also took him to nearby Huddersfield, he spoke to members of the public who told him that they were usually Labour voters, but would be voting for the Brexit Party.

He said: “It’s areas like this where I think the Labour Party is vulnerable in the most extraordinary way.

“This is a 70 percent Leave constituency, these five towns voted Leave by a massive margin. You’ve got a member of Parliament who, at the general election a year later, promised to honour the result, and has spent the last two years effectively trying to stop Brexit from happening. So there is real anger in these places.

“We focus on the Conservatives being in real trouble over the EU issue. In the north of England, Labour is in very big trouble too.”

He also called a confirmatory referendum an “outrage”.

He said: “If they dare put that to the British people, a second referendum without the option of us actually leaving, I think British politics will change more than it has for 100 years.”

Many locals asked him for a selfie and one woman even gave the politician a hug.



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