I’m going for Labour heartlands, says Farage as he announces line-up

NIGEL Farage vowed to target Labour heartlands with his new Brexit Party yesterday as he unveiled five candidates for the European elections.

The line-up included a former revolutionary communist turned TV pundit, an ex-Royal Marine commando, a charity boss, an ex-nurse and a smoked salmon businessman.

The line-up quickly won support from Brexiteer Tory MP Lucy Allen who tweeted that the rival party was fielding some ‘fantastic candidates’.

Mr Farage said he had set his sights on Labour voters and would take to the party’s heartlands in the Midlands, South Wales and North of England.

He said the party was already ‘doing very well’ with Tories. But added: ‘There are five million people that voted for Jeremy Corbyn and voted for Brexit as well, and that’s going to be our task.’ Claire Fox, a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze programme, said she most likely only agreed with Farage on one issue – Brexit.

James Glancy, a Special Boat Service veteran, claimed he was compelled to stand because he felt politicians were ‘undermining democracy’.

Former charity boss Matthew Patten said he believed the Brexit Party would help the country regain its ‘confidence in the future’.

Former nurse Christina Jordan claimed Remain supporting MPs had been blocking Brexit while smoked salmon producer Lance Foreman, a former special adviser to ex-Tory MP Peter Lilley, said only ‘political obsessives’ succeed in Westminster.