The assertion was made by British MEP Steven Woolfe on the basis of a YouGov poll from May 19-21 that sampled 3864 people in the UK predicts the Brexit Party taking a colossal 37 percent share of the UK vote in today’s European elections. Mr Woolfe told Euronews that he understood the appeal of Mr Farage and the new party – and that the EU should be deeply concerned. He explained: “He (Nigel Farage) has a clear message.

“That message is resonating with millions of people and 37 percent will see a tremendous number of MEPs coming into the European Parliament, which will cause problems on the numbers when it comes to the overall projection of MEPs.

“You could have 200 Eurosceptics.

“Which is a big problem for the daily business of the parliament going forward.”

Whilst the poll indisputably projected a win for Mr Farage, the Liberal Democrats came in second place with a 19 percent share of the vote.

Mr Woolfe again put this result down to their simple pledge to stop Brexit.

The Tory Party lie at an abysmal seven percent – which might not be able to win them even a single MEP if the poll results come to pass.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Tories are heading for an election catastrophe reminiscent of that suffered by Canada’s Conservatives in the 1990s if they fail to take on Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party.

Led by prime minister Kim Campbell, the Progressive Conservatives entered the 1993 federal election with 154 seats in the lower house but ended up with just two.

The party had been in power for nine years, but voters decided to emphatically boot them out and install the Liberals under Jean Chretien.

The Progressives dissolved a decade later and it was not until 2006 that a centre-right party, this time under the guise of the Conservative Party of Canada, would return to power.

Mr Rees-Mogg, chairman of the European Research Group of Brexiteer Tories, said his party must “wake up” to the groundswell of support seen by the fledgeling Brexit Party – for which his sister, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, is a candidate in the East Midlands.

He told ITV’s Peston: “I think (Mr Farage) is a quite remarkable politician and what he has achieved in the last few weeks to get the Brexit Party to over 30 percent in opinion polls shows politics has been really shaken up and the Conservatives must wake up to that, otherwise we are headed towards a Canada-style two seats at the next election, which is very serious for Conservatives.”

Mr Rees-Mogg said the Tories risked losing voters “permanently” if the party failed to deliver Britain’s departure from the EU.

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