Boris Johnson - Brexit star

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Boris Johnson is a Pro-Brexit weapon in the hands of the Torries (Conservatives) against the rightwing Populist Brexit party of Nigel Farage.










Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party

The Brexit Party is a Eurosceptic political party in the United Kingdom founded in January 2019. It is led by Nigel Farage. The party has 29 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and four Welsh Assembly Members. The party's first major electoral success was winning the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom after four months in existence.

Established by Catherine Blaiklock, the Brexit Party campaigns for British withdrawal from the European Union (EU) without a free trade agreement, in order for the UK to trade on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms. Generally described as populist, it draws its support from those who are frustrated with the non-implementation of the 2016 referendum decision and wish to leave the EU without remaining part of the single market or customs union. Many of its members were formerly of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) – Farage having led UKIP from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016) – as well as from the Conservative Party, including high-profile defectors such as Ann Widdecombe and Annunziata Rees-Mogg. There have also been some left wing endorsements, such as George Galloway.

The Brexit Party styles itself as being focused on the restoration of Britain's democratic sovereignty, its primary policy being for the UK to withdraw from the EU and to trade on WTO terms until formal trade agreements can be made. On contesting the 2019 European Parliament election, the Brexit Party became the largest British party in that parliament and largest single European party overall.

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The Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) is a liberal political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Vince Cable. The party has 12 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 96 members of the House of Lords, 16 members of the European Parliament, five Members of the Scottish Parliament and one member in both the Welsh Assembly and London Assembly. At the height of its influence, the party was in a coalition government with the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2015.

As a pro-EU party, the Liberal Democrats tended to far badly at European Parliamentary elections. In the 2004 local elections their share of the vote was 29% (placing them second, ahead of Labour) and 14.9% in the simultaneous European Parliament elections (putting them in fourth place behind the UK Independence Party). The results of the 2009 European elections were similar with the party achieving a vote of 28% in the county council elections yet achieving only 13.7% in the Europeans despite the elections taking place on the same day. The 2009 elections did however see the party gain one seat from UKIP in the East Midlands region taking the number of representatives in the parliament up to 11. In 2014 the party lost ten seats, leaving them with one MEP. Campaigning on a pro-Remain platform with the slogan "Bollocks to Brexit", the party achieved their best ever results in the 2019 election, taking 19.6% of the vote and winning 16 seats.

In the European Parliament, during 2004 to 2019 the party sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group, which favoured further strengthening European integration. The group's leader for seven and a half years was the South West England MEP Graham Watson, who was also the first Liberal Democrat to be elected to the European Parliament when he won the old Somerset and North Devon constituency in 1994. The group's current leader is the former Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt. Following the 2019 European elections, The Liberal Democrats joined Renew Europe, the successor group to the ALDE group.

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