Talking on BBC Newsnight, Ms Fox, who is Brexit Party MEP for North West England, claimed the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal wasn’t enough and trapped the UK in an “interminable relationship with the European Union.” Ms Fox’s tirade follows news that MPs backed Boris Johnson’s call for an election following months of Brexit deadlock.

Newsnight host, Emily Maitlis, drew attention to what could be the Brexit Party’s eventual demise following a break in the race to the UK’s departure from the EU.

Ms Maitlis said: “The Tories have said there will be no pact, so they could just isolate you.

“The could just cut you out of the picture completely.”

Ms Fox hit back: “The Tories don’t own Brexit.

“And the Tory Party so far has brought a treaty which I think is not good enough.

“I know that this is going to split a number of leave voters, people are having dilemmas.

“Some people think ‘well at least it gets us over the line’.”

She continued: “They’re so fed up with the shenanigans of a Remain Parliament that has been trying to defy the democratic mandate, that they actually think well at least Boris Johnson’s deal is something.

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“I actually don’t think it’s good enough.”

Ms Fox then went on to praise Mr Johnson’s ability to have negotiated with the EU and come back having made them compromise.

She said: “To give credit to Boris, he managed to get the European Union to reopen the treaty that they said they’d never reopen.

“He did that with minimum pressure on a minority Parliament.”

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Emily Maitlis countered her and said: “Many would say this was backwards compared to what he achieved after Theresa May.”

Ms Fox replied: “Well no, he did something that no one else did.”

With a laugh, Ms Maitlis came back: “Because no one else tried to.”

Ms Fox continued: “Can you imagine if you had a Parliament full of leavers. strong leavers – Brexit Party, Tory, some Labour leavers, whichever leavers I don’t care what party they’re from.

“Then actually I think you could force the European Union to deliver far more than a treaty that is going to trap us in an interminable relationship with the European Union.”

Today, it was announced that MPs backed Mr Johnson’s plan to hold a general election on December 12, effectively putting an end to months of Brexit deadlock.

By a margin of 438 votes to 20, the House of Commons approved legislation that will mark the first December general election since 1923.

Key members of the opposition came round to backing the notion of a general election in what is thought to be decisive support – among them, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, who had previously said he would not back a general election until no deal was completely taken off the table.

Labour attempted to change the election date to December 9, but their tabling was rejected by MPs by a margin of 315 to 295 votes.

Efforts by opposition MPs to lower the voting age to 16 as well as allow EU nationals to take part in the election also failed.

The bill still needs to be approved by the House of Lords, but could be passed as early as the end of the week.

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