Marc Roche, a Belgian journalist for Le Point and Le Soir, has claimed the European Union believe Brexit “will not happen”. Speaking on BBC’s Dateline London, the political commentator insisted there will almost certainly be European elections in the UK at the end of May. Mr Roche also insisted the view in the European Union was that “Brexit will die” after Britain’s exit from the bloc is “postponed” again and again.

Asked about the chances of the UK not having to take part in the European poll at the end of May, Mr Roche said: “I think it is zero. There will be European elections.

“It is fantastic, I spend a week in Brussels. They say to you, basically, from the UK it will be to postpone and to postpone, three or four times.

“Then Brexit will die, that is the view in Brussels, simply by default because there is nothing else.

“There is a word for the situation of the UK, is the never existing exiting country. That is how the UK is called in Brussels.

Brexit will die, that is the view in Brussels

Marc Roche

“Because the Europeans now are turning the page, they will have a new Commission, a new Parliament, they will have a new head of the European Bank and they have big issues which they want to settle, China, artificial intelligence, defence, populism, migration.

“For them, Brexit has become no longer a priority like it was three years ago. It was a nuisance, and it will continue like this forever.”

He added: “Anyway, I cannot see any things going on in Britain that will change.”

Mr Roche also tweeted: “A postponement will be followed by another postponement and so on for an endless sequence. The reason, the lack of vision of the post Brexit camp “Leave”.”

The Government has been locked in Brexit negotiations with the Labour Party with little progress made since MPs returned from their Easter break.

Theresa May is expected to bring back her deal again in front of the Commons to try to avoid Britain taking part in the European elections.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party last week announced a number of candidates who will run for the party in the European vote, and have taken lead in the polls.

A YouGov poll taken between April 23-26 of 5412 people in the UK, found the Brexit Party leading the European Parliament elections with 28 percent of the vote.

The Labour Party remain on 22 percent, while the Conservatives fell to 13 percent.

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