Will Widders waltz into the Brexit Party?

Yesterday, a poll suggested that up to 40 per cent of tory councillors are willing to back Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party in the european elections.

But it’s not just councillors he’s winning over. Having already unveiled annunziata Reesmogg, whose brother Jacob is the high priest of tory Brexiteer MPs, Farage is hinting he has some other big names up his sleeve — and some will be announced at a press conference tomorrow.

One who is reportedly on the verge of signing up is my good friend and former tory minister ann Widdecombe. a tory for 55 years, the redoubtable Widdecombe

campaigned hard for Brexit and was appalled by the failure to deliver on the article 50 commitment to leave on March 29.

In a recent TV interview Widders, an MP for 23 years, described theresa May as the worst tory leader since sir anthony eden, who led Britain into the humiliating 1956 suez Crisis.

For what it’s worth, she also thinks that Jeremy Corbyn is the worst ever Labour leader and that this is the worst Parliament since Cromwell.

Widders transcends the usual party politics as she was runnerup in Celebrity Big Brother last year and a star turn on strictly Come dancing. she is currently in transit from a trip overseas, while Farage remained incommunicado last night. But remember where you heard it first.