On the 10th anniversary, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said that Brexit remains the great dividing line in British politics - a decade on from the historic vote to leave the European Union.
Speaking to GB News on the 10th anniversary of the referendum, Farage said Brexit was an “earthquake”, and that Britain is still living through the consequences. “These are the aftershocks and they’re still going”, he said.
Farage also argued that Brexit continues to shape the collapse of the old two-party system. He said Labour’s defeats in Brexit-voting areas on 7th May showed the divide has not gone away. “The Labour Party got wiped out in the North East, the North West, Yorkshire, the West Midlands, South Wales - wiped out by Reform”, he told GB News. “They were all Brexit-voting areas.”
Asked on GB News whether Brexit could now be reversed under a future Labour leader such as Andy Burnham, Farage was emphatic. “Constitutionally, Brexit will not be overturned. It won’t be”, he said.
Any attempt to take Britain back into the EU would be politically impossible, he said. “If Andy Burnham says to the country at the next election, ‘I’m going to take you back into the EU’, he will not win a single seat in the north of England. Simple as.”
Farage said the Conservatives had failed to take Britain far enough away from Brussels, warning on GB News that Britain is now “aping EU legislation” and “economically tying ourselves again closely to the most failing economic part of the world”.
On Good Morning Britain, Farage described Brexit as “an earthquake in British politics”, triggered by ordinary voters defying the entire political establishment.
“All the big political parties were telling everybody: you must vote to stay in, catastrophe will come upon us if we dare to leave”, Farage said. “But the British people took a political decision.”
For Farage, the tragedy of the past decade has been the refusal of Westminster to properly honour the Brexit vote. “Much of Westminster refused to accept the result, and thought the people were idiots”, he said. “Then, after three years of Parliament not implementing the will of the people, we had a government that did not implement it.”
He said Leave voters had a clear vision for Brexit: lower levels of immigration and fewer regulations. “Those were the realistic expectations of Leave voters, and they have not been delivered”, he said on GMB. “That is a political failure in this country.”
On Talk, Farage maintained that “[Brexit] was the right thing to do, and of that I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever. But what has happened since has been shameful, frankly.”
Ten years on, Farage said, Brexit was not a failure, but a betrayal. As he put it on Talk: “That is not a failure of Brexit. That is a betrayal by the political class of what they were elected to do and instructed to do in that referendum.”
Speaking to GB News on the 10th anniversary of the referendum, Farage said Brexit was an “earthquake”, and that Britain is still living through the consequences. “These are the aftershocks and they’re still going”, he said.
Farage also argued that Brexit continues to shape the collapse of the old two-party system. He said Labour’s defeats in Brexit-voting areas on 7th May showed the divide has not gone away. “The Labour Party got wiped out in the North East, the North West, Yorkshire, the West Midlands, South Wales - wiped out by Reform”, he told GB News. “They were all Brexit-voting areas.”
Asked on GB News whether Brexit could now be reversed under a future Labour leader such as Andy Burnham, Farage was emphatic. “Constitutionally, Brexit will not be overturned. It won’t be”, he said.
Any attempt to take Britain back into the EU would be politically impossible, he said. “If Andy Burnham says to the country at the next election, ‘I’m going to take you back into the EU’, he will not win a single seat in the north of England. Simple as.”
Farage said the Conservatives had failed to take Britain far enough away from Brussels, warning on GB News that Britain is now “aping EU legislation” and “economically tying ourselves again closely to the most failing economic part of the world”.
On Good Morning Britain, Farage described Brexit as “an earthquake in British politics”, triggered by ordinary voters defying the entire political establishment.
“All the big political parties were telling everybody: you must vote to stay in, catastrophe will come upon us if we dare to leave”, Farage said. “But the British people took a political decision.”
For Farage, the tragedy of the past decade has been the refusal of Westminster to properly honour the Brexit vote. “Much of Westminster refused to accept the result, and thought the people were idiots”, he said. “Then, after three years of Parliament not implementing the will of the people, we had a government that did not implement it.”
He said Leave voters had a clear vision for Brexit: lower levels of immigration and fewer regulations. “Those were the realistic expectations of Leave voters, and they have not been delivered”, he said on GMB. “That is a political failure in this country.”
On Talk, Farage maintained that “[Brexit] was the right thing to do, and of that I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever. But what has happened since has been shameful, frankly.”
Ten years on, Farage said, Brexit was not a failure, but a betrayal. As he put it on Talk: “That is not a failure of Brexit. That is a betrayal by the political class of what they were elected to do and instructed to do in that referendum.”
