Nigel Farage Suddenly Has the Upper Hand in Britain
Britain's Conservative party is about betrayal more than Brexit – and it isn’t about to fade away.
On the campaign trail.
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To understand why Theresa May's Brexit deal has foundered and she is under such pressure to resign, you could do worse than visit Britain’s West Midlands. As Nigel Farage's populist road-show swept through Wolverhampton last week, it was easy to see his upstart Brexit Party is building a future for itself beyond this week's European election. Neither the Conservative nor Labour party know what has hit them.
Farage is due to address a crowd in a large hall in this Labour-voting area with high levels of deprivation. His message: his party will take Britain out of Europe without a deal. No deal is the best deal for Britain.