Farage ready for return

A NEW Brexit party backed by Nigel Farage was officially recognised yesterday by Britain’s electoral regulator.

The Electoral Commission said the ‘Brexit Party’ is an official organisation and will be allowed to field candidates at elections. Former Ukip leader Mr Farage said he stood ‘ready for battle’ to fight the Tories and Labour.

He said he would stand for the new Brexit Party if the UK’s departure from the European Union was delayed. Brexit is due to take place on March 29, but Mr Farage said that if MPs ‘kick the can down the road’ by extending Article 50, ‘then logically we would have to fight European elections and I would certainly stand in them in those circumstances’.

The party’s leader is former Ukip candidate Catherine Blaiklock.

The next EU elections are scheduled for May of this year.