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Britain’s departure from the European Union will be delayed again because Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to do a last-minute deal with Brussels will be rejected by parliament, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said.
Axar.az reports citing Reuters.
Farage said the country was in the grips of the biggest row since the English Civil War in the 17th Century and that Johnson risked destroying his Conservative Party as he was trying to reheat the failed exit deal of his predecessor Theresa May.
“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,” Brexit Party leader Farage told in an interview.
“So we won’t leave on the 31st of October and then we are really into uncharted waters - whether parliament imposes a second referendum or we have a general election, I really don’t know,” Farage, 55, said.
In the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum, 51.9 percent, or 17.4 million people, voted to leave the EU while 48.1 percent, or 16.1 million, voted to stay.
Shunned by the British political establishment but backed by Eurosceptic financiers, Farage sold Brexit to millions of voters in England and Wales who felt ignored by both the mainstream Conservative and Labour parties.
Date
2019.09.16 / 13:52
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Author
Axar.az
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