Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage revealed that in the event that the Brexit Party gets 50 seats in the upcoming European elections he may be prepared to do a deal with the Conservative Party to get Brexit over the line. He added that the only way his party would help push the next Tory leader to power over Jeremy Corbyn was if he could be guaranteed a WTO Brexit. During a Brexit Party rally in Pontefract Theo Usherwood of LBC questioned the Brexit Party leader and said: “Let’s say you got 50 seats, would you form a coalition with one of the major parties to get Brexit over the line.

“This is a pertinent question if you had 50 seats and Jeremy Corbyn comes to you and says I desperately want to be Prime Minister Nigel Farage, which he won’t.

“But let’s say the next Tory leader says I desperately want to be Prime Minister Nigel, would you do a deal to make them Prime Minister to get your Brexit.”

The Brexit Party leader quickly replied: “If we could save £39bn, come out of the customs union, come out of the single market, come out of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and be a genuinely independent self-governing democracy that could choose its own future.

“I’d do a deal with the Devil to get that, I really would.”

The crowd around the pair then broke out into cheers and applause.

Mr Farage continued: “If we stay in the customs union and single market rules we haven’t left the EU.

Mr Usherwood then added that Mr Farage and the Brexit Party were asking for a higher price than Brexiteers like Jacob Rees-Mogg in the European Research Group (ERG) who took issue with the Irish backstop.

The Brexit Party leader shot back: “It is not a higher price.

“We voted for independence, we voted to be a free nation, that is what the referendum was about.

“That is what Article 50 was put into law for and in the absence of a withdrawal agreement we were to leave under British law on March 29.

“It is that that has been betrayed, It is that which I have fought for and what I will go on fighting for.”

The Brexit Party has become the heavy favourite over the last few weeks to be the leading party in the upcoming European elections.

A recent opinion poll where 1,867 people were asked suggested the Conservatives could slump to fifth place in the contest, which is taking place because Brexit has been delayed.

The YouGov study for the Times put the Tories on just 10 percent for the EU election, behind the Brexit Party on 34 percent, Labour on 16 percent, the Liberal Democrats on 15 percent and the Greens on 11 percent.

In a general election, the poll suggested the Tories would be neck and neck with Labour on just 24 percent, with the Brexit Party on 18 percent and Lib Dems on 16 percent.

UK voters in the local elections earlier this month showed general fatigue with the established parties, as the Conservative party forfeited some 1,200 seats.

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