Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party triumphs in EU elections, as Tories score worst results in decades
- Nigel Farage says Britain should ready itself to leave the EU without a divorce deal, after his Brexit Party sweeps almost a third of the votes
- The Brexit Party won 28 of the 73 British EU seats up for grabs and almost a third of the votes, and the Conservatives won three EU seats – a catastrophic result for the party of government

The United Kingdom’s governing Conservative Party was all but wiped out in voting for the European Parliament, as pro-Brexit and pro-EU voters both punished it for leading the country into a political impasse, and failing to lead it out of the EU.
With results announced Monday for all of England and Wales, the Brexit Party had won 28 of the 73 British EU seats up for grabs and almost a third of the votes.
The pro-EU Liberal Democrats took about 20 per cent of the vote and 15 seats – up from only one at the last EU election in 2014.
Labour came third with 10 seats, followed by the pro-European, environmentalist Greens with seven. The ruling Conservatives – apparently blamed by voters for failing to deliver Brexit in March as planned – were in fifth place with just three EU seats and under 10 per cent of the vote.
