Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage says he believes Britain's departure from th...
SOUTHPORT, England - Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage says he believes Britain’s departure from the European Union will be delayed again because parliament will reject Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to do a last-minute deal with Brussels.
“At the Oct. 17-18 EU summit there will be some give from the European Union and Boris will bring it back to parliament before Oct. 31 and, I suspect, fail to get it through,” the Brexit Party leader told Reuters in an interview. The perceived electoral threat to the Conservatives from the United Kingdom Independence Party which Farage formerly led was one of the main reasons then-prime minister David Cameron decided in 2013 to promise the Brexit referendum.
The United Kingdom was due to leave on March 29 but it was delayed because May’s deal was defeated three times by parliament. “I still don’t rule out the possibility of some kind of pact, some kind of deal, but I am not banking on it,” Farage said, adding if Brexit was not delivered on Oct. 31 then his Brexit Party would see its poll ratings surge beyond 20 percent.
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