The Brexit Party would “explode even more rapidly” if EU elections were cancelled, claimed Nigel Farage. Mr Farage believes EU elections will not be cancelled, however, arguing Theresa May knows a Brexit deal “cannot get through Westminster”. During a Brexit Party rally, Fran from Taunton asked: “What will the Party do if the European elections are cancelled?” Mr Farage addressed the crowd: “There is this idea that the European elections could be cancelled.

“There is only one way in which they could be cancelled and that is if Mrs May does an absolutely treacherous deal with Jeremy Corbyn that would lock us into a permanent customs union and keep us part of the single market.

“If that happened, I suspect support for the Brexit Party would explode even more rapidly and even more quickly.

“But it isn’t going to happen, she knows she cannot get it through Westminster.

“Ann on the video earlier said that she thought this was the worst Prime Minister since Anthony Eden.

I suspect support for the Brexit Party would explode even more rapidly

Nigel Farage

“And without wishing to begin any splits within this Party in its infancy Ann’s wrong, she’s the worst Prime Minister in the history of our country.”

The comments come as Mrs May’s embattled Cabinet is facing fresh splits, amid reports the Government is considering a customs union deal with Labour to get a Brexit agreement through Parliament.

Insiders said ministers remain bitterly divided over the proposals with several doubting such a deal could command a majority in parliament or survive amendments from furious backbenchers.

One senior Cabinet member suggested as few as 90 Tory MPs would support any withdrawal agreement involving a customs union and warned it would spark a new round of ministerial resignations.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is understood to be among those most fiercely opposed to a customs union with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom also determined to block the idea.

But a source said Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Mrs May’s chief whip Julian Smith were still trying to talk Cabinet colleagues into accepting a deal with Labour may be the only path to delivering Brexit.

Mrs May said she had an “open mind” on a deal to be done with Labour.

She told a Commons liaison committee yesterday: “There are differences on issues but on many of the key areas – particularly on the withdrawal agreement – there is common ground.”

It is understood the proposal would inolve Britain’s entry into a customs arrangement with the EU which would see the alignment of all tariffs on goods within the EU and allowing it to negotiate trade deals on the UK’s behalf.

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