NIGEL FARAGE has sent shockwaves through Westminster following his return to frontline politics after huge support for his newly-formed Brexit Party surpassed 90,000 registered members.
The former Ukip leader has enjoyed a resurgence to the political cauldron and has galvanised frustrated Brexiteers after the Government failed to deliver Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.
Mr Farage has called for the grassroots eurosceptic party to overthrow the establishment and has vowed to fight the upcoming European elections, the Peterborough by-election and any future general elections.
The leading Brexiteer has revealed the Brexit Party has raised an astonishing £2million from its members in the past month.
During a fiery encounter on ITV’s Peston show, Mr Farage hit back at Robert Peston who questioned where Mr Farage had received a huge £100,000 donation from.
The Brexit Party leader said the ITV political editor’s line of questioning was “quite extraordinary” and stated the finances would be revealed after the European Parliament elections on May 23.
Mr Farage said: “I find your question quite extraordinary. I’ve answered it once already, let’s try it again.
“Ninety-thousand individuals living in this country in the last four weeks have paid us £25 to become registered supporters of the Brexit Party. That’s over £2 million.
“I said we’ve received one big donation of £100,000, I can now tell you today, we’ve received several more. All of them have been reported to the Electoral Commission, and they will tell you who they are.”
Mr Farage, who was instrumental in campaigning to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum, insisted his return was not just “gesture politics” but the start of a “more ambitious project”.
The frustrated Brexiteer claimed the only way to deliver on the will of the 17.4 million people who voted to leave the bloc is to replace the Remainer MPs in the House of Commons.
Mr Farage added: “Please believe me, this is far from that. This is the first step in a much much bigger, much more ambitious project. We’re never going to get the Brexit we voted for with this current Parliament.
“So we need to change the kinds of people that are sitting in the House of Commons, and we will go on from the European elections, we’ll fight by-elections and general elections.”
Participants highlighted the backlash against the mainstream parties with just one percent voting for Labour and zero percent for the Tories.
Elsewhere the Liberal Democrats received five percent, Change UK and Ukip were on three percent, whilst the Green Party and ‘other’ received just one percent.
A total of 48,465 people took part in the poll, which was conducted online at Express.co.uk between 3pm on Tuesday May 7 and 5pm on Wednesday May 8.
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