‘The most ridiculous interview ever’ – Farage sets out his stall in tense Marr interview

The weekend papers are filled with grim poll predictions for the Conservative party – and good news for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party. An Opinium poll suggests that the Brexit party will win a larger share of the vote in the European elections than the Tory party and Labour combined. With regards to a general election, the Telegraph has published a poll which says the Brexit Party has also overtaken the Conservatives in Westminster voting intention for the first time – and predicts that the party would win 49 seats in a general election now.  Building on that momentum, Farage appeared on the Andrew Marr sofa this morning to lay out his party’s pitch ahead of the vote later this month. However, things didn’t go quite to plan with Farage going on to accuse the BBC broadcaster of carrying out the ‘most ridiculous interview ever’.

On Brexit, Farage batted off suggestions that he had changed his tune from the referendum when he spoke of getting a Brexit deal – and showed some sympathy towards the Norway model.