Farage says he could back new EU referendum

Nigel Farage has said he could support a second referendum on the UK’S EU membership “to kill it off for a generation”.

Speaking on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, the former Ukip leader revealed he was changing his mind on the idea of another referendum and claimed that the vote to leave the EU would be “much bigger than it was last time”.

Nicola Sturgeon said this week that another EU vote could become “irresistible” in the event of a nodeal Brexit.

Mr Farage said: “What is for certain is that the [Nick] Cleggs, the [Tony] Blairs, will never, ever, ever give up. They will go on whinging and whining and moaning all the way through this process.

“So maybe, just maybe, I’m reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership… I think we may just finish the whole thing off and Blair can disappear off into obscurity.”