Nigel Farage defended his decision not to try and change the EU fisheries policies from within, claiming it would be pointless as no-one within the committee had legislative power. Mr Farage began by addressing the calls for a Norway-style Brexit and insisted it would make the country worse off. He was then called out by the LBC host Iain Dale for his lack of attendance to EU fisheries committee meetings. The Brexit Party leader responded: “I never changed my mind on the Norway option.

“We can do better than Norway and I have to say, all this talk about Norway that Nick Bowles and others are putting forward, no one is talking about fishing.

“We would be Norway without the fish, what they are proposing is even worse for us as Norway is five million people.”

The LBC host then asked if Mr Farage was so interested in fishing, why has he only attended one of 42 fishing committee meetings in the European Parliament.

The Brexit Party leader replied: “Because we want to leave the European Union.”

Mr Dale shot back: “If you attend the meetings, you can shape the policy but you haven’t been attending them.”

Mr Farage quickly snapped: “No, no, no there was no legal role.

“There was no legislative role in that committee whatsoever.

“You couldn’t do a thing, it was pointless and it gets to the real argument.

“We have spent 45 years inside the European project arguing we can reform it from within.

“We haven’t, so we are leaving.”

The Brexit Party is running for the European Parliament elections taking place on May 23 – and polls are signalling it may take over both the Labour and Conservative parties. 

Two recent YouGov polls show Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has surged by 12 percent in just four days, while the Tories are facing their worst defeat in 185 years.

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