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Nigel Farage: 'No way' Brexit deal will be voted in

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 8:01AM
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Photo / Getty Images.

Nigel Farage: 'No way' Brexit deal will be voted in

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 8:01AM

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says there is "no way" British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal will be supported in this morning's historic vote.

The UK Parliament is voting as Minister Theresa May lobbied for support but braced for defeat of the UK's divorce deal with the European Union.
All signs indicate a resounding rejection, despite pleas from May and her allies on the final day of debate.

Nigel Farage told Tim Dower all signs indicate a resounding rejection.

"There is no way this deal is going to get voted for. It's going to get a good solid trouncing, a thumping, possibly a very, very large number."

However, he said the vote needed to happen.

"Today is a day we should be celebrating, we should be hanging out the flags and having parties because here is a piece of legislation, that should be getting us out of the European Union on acceptable terms, and I'm afraid what the Prime Minister has done is saught this path of being half in and half out."

Farage said the deal highlights a "total failure in leadership" from Theresa May.

"It is going against everything she told the public at every stage. She talked about taking back control of our money, our laws and our borders and in reality, she is giving away a minimum of 39 billion Stirling for a series of promises that perhaps in the future we might have a fresh trade deal with the European Union."

He said she is "blackmailing" the public to vote for the deal.

"Literally, it's my way or the highway, do what I've done otherwise there could be no Brexit, that's impressing no one."

"There is a risk...that if this deal gets blocked we could end up with paralysis in the House of Commons,...and there is a risk of a second referendum but my view on it is that this deal is so awful, it doesn't get this what we voted for, that even if that is the risk...I think it's a risk worth taking."

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