He said he wants to run candidates for Parliament in future to stop Remainer MPs blocking Brexit. Mr Farage’s new party is on course to come top in next month’s EU elections just months after it was founded. The former Ukip leader said: “We want the European election to be the first step of a massive change that ‘resteps’ entirely British politics and actually makes it look more like the country. MPs will realise that if they carry on trying to stop Brexit, they’ll lose their seats at the next general election. I think they will be very fearful of what the Brexit Party can do to them.
“That’ll give them two choices – either they change and start to deliver Brexit, or we’ll replace them at that general election.
“It’s a springboard. If you show people you’re capable of winning in one set of elections, people will start to believe that it’s possible in a general election too.”
A string of polls have shown the Brexit Party is likely to come top in the European Parliament elections which will take place on May 23 if the UK is still in the EU by then.
The party has signed up candidates including ex-Tory minister Ann Widdecombe and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata.
Six new candidates unveiled yesterday included lawyer Elizabeth Babade, who was born in London before her family moved back to Nigeria.
Mother of four Mrs Babade, 44, who lives in Buckinghamshire, said: “A lot of people would wonder why someone from an ethnic minority like myself would be standing for the Brexit Party.
“Well the answer is simple. I believe in democracy.”
Fellow candidate James Wells, who is standing in Wales, told a press conference in Manchester that as a civil servant banned from political involvement, he resigned from his job as head of UK trade at the Office for National Statistics only on Tuesday.
