Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is today celebrating after stealing the night in the European elections.

The Tories were almost obliterated by the Brexit Party, winning less than nine per cent of the vote and holding on to just three seats in what was their worst election result since 1832.

But Farage’s insurgent party won in every region except London and picked up 28 seats.

He said: ‘Never before in British politics has a new party launched just six weeks ago topped the polls in a national election.

‘The reason of course is very obvious: we voted to leave in a referendum, we were supposed to do so on March 29 and we haven’t.

‘There’s a huge message here, massive message here – the Labour and Conservative parties could learn a big lesson from tonight – though I don’t suppose that they actually will.’

With leader Theresa May on the way out, the Conservatives lost 15 of their 18 seats, coming in fifth place behind the Green Party.

Foreign Secretary and Tory leadership hopeful Jeremy Hunt: ‘Yes, we knew it was coming but still a painful result.

‘Existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done.’

Labour were also battered, losing eight of its 18 seats, as both the Liberal Democrats and the Greens benefitted by appealing to the Remain vote.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: ‘With the Conservatives disintegrating and unable to govern, and parliament deadlocked, this issue will have to go back to the people, whether through a general election or a public vote.

‘Over the coming days we will have conversations across our party and movement, and reflect on these results on both sides of the Brexit divide.

‘We will not let the continuing chaos in the Conservative Party push our country into a No Deal exit from the EU.’

Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry added: ‘We should have said, quite simply, that any deal that comes out of this government should be put to a confirmatory referendum and that remain should be on the ballot paper and that Labour would campaign to remain.’

And Tottenham MP David Lammy said the party should hold a vote of members to decide its position on Brexit, but called for it to back a second referendum.

‘Labour should get its act together,’ he told BBC Radio 4’s Today. ‘We tried to ride two horses and what happened… is that we fell flat on our faces.’

The Lib Dems, who were reduced to just a single MEP in 2014, won 15 MEPs across the UK and topped the poll in London ahead of Labour.

Leader Sir Vince Cable said the party were ‘making gains around the country with some really impressive swings in many seats’.

He said it was ‘proof that the Lib Dems are the biggest, strongest voice of Remain’.

The Green Party won seven MEPs, including Britain’s coolest mayor Magid Magid.

Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said her party’s result showed Nigel Farage was wrong to say the Leave side had won the European election.

She told the Today programme: ‘I don’t think that’s right, I think the Brexit Party got about 35 per cent of the vote and the strongly Remain parties got about 40 per cent of the vote.

‘So either way you look at it the Brexit Party has got nothing like the 17 million they had before.

‘The point is let’s just try and rule out the kind of terrifying vision for this country of no deal, that literally should go.’

Change UK and Ukip failed to win a single seat in the elections – while Tommy Robinson blamed Facebook for his humiliating defeat.

Change UK leader Heidi Allen said: ‘The Brexit Party may well do well in this election tonight but they don’t have any MPs in the House of Commons.

‘It is MPs who hold the decision-making responsibility on what happens (on Brexit).

‘Twice already we have categorically voted down no-deal. There’s no way on earth no-deal will pass the House of Commons.’

Plaid Cymru equalled the single seat they won in 2014, while the SNP is forecast to win three MEPs in Scotland.

Last night, Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: ‘Outstanding results so far tonight for @theSNP – on course for our best ever Euro election result.

‘Polling way ahead of any other party. Higher % in Scotland than Brexit Party’s current share in UK.

‘Emphatically clear that Scotland doesn’t want Brexit.’

The results…

European election results in full

EAST MIDLANDS

Elected: Rory Palmer (Labour), Bill Newton Dunn (Lib Dem), Annunziata Rees-Mogg (Brexit Party), Jonathan Bullock (Brexit Party), Matthew Patten (Brexit Party)

Brexit Party 452,321 (38.23%)

Lib Dem 203,989 (17.24%, +11.82%)

Labour 164,682 (13.92%, -11.01%)

Conservative 126,138 (10.66%, -15.33%)

Green 124,630 (10.53%, +4.55%)

UKIP 58,198 (4.92%, -27.98%)

Change UK 41,117 (3.47%)

EASTERN

Elected: Geoffrey Van Orden (Conservative), Barbara Gibson (Lib Dem), Lucy Nethsingha (Lib Dem), Richard Tice (Brexit Party), Michael Heaver (Brexit Party), June Mummery (Brexit Party), Catherine Rowett (Green)

Brexit Party 604,715 (37.83%)

Lib Dem 361,563 (22.62%, +15.76%)

Green 202,460 (12.67%, +4.20%)

Conservative 163,830 (10.25%, -18.12%)

Labour 139,490 (8.73%, -8.53%)

Change UK 58,274 (3.65%)

UKIP 54,676 (3.42%, -31.06%)

LONDON

Elected: Claude Moraes (Lab), Seb Dance (Lab), Irina Von Wiese (Lib Dem), Dinesh Dhamija (Lib Dem), Luisa Porritt (Lib Dem), Ben Habib (Brexit Party), Lance Forman (Brexit Party), Scott Ainslie (Green)

Lib Dem 608,725 (27.17%, +20.44%)

Lab 536,810 (23.96%, -12.72%)

Brexit Party 400,257 (17.86%)

Green 278,957 (12.45%, +3.52%)

Conservative 177,964 (7.94%, -14.58%)

Change UK 117,635 (5.25%)

UKIP 46,497 (2.08%, -14.79%)

NORTH EAST

Elected: Jude Kirton-Darling (Labour), Brian Monteith (Brexit Party), John Tennant (Brexit Party)

Brexit Party 240,056 (38.73%)

Lab 119,931 (19.35%, -17.12%)

Lib Dem 104,330 (16.83%, +10.90%)

Green 49,905 (8.05%, +2.86%)

Conservative 42,395 (6.84%, -10.86%)

UKIP 38,269 (6.17%, -23.02%)

Change UK 24,968 (4.03%)

NORTH WEST

Elected: Theresa Griffin (Lab), Julie Ward (Lab), Chris Davies (Lib Dem), Jane Brophy (Lib Dem), Claire Fox (Brexit Party), Henrik Overgaard Nielsen (Brexit Party), David Bull (Brexit Party), Gina Dowding (Green)

Brexit Party 541,843 (31.23%)

Lab 380,193 (21.91%, -11.94%)

Lib Dem 297,507 (17.15%, +11.14%)

Green 216,581 (12.48%, +5.47%)

Conservative 131,002 (7.55%, -12.51%)

UKIP 62,464 (3.60%, -23.86%)

Change UK 47,237 (2.72%)

Tommy Robinson 38,908 (2.24%)

SOUTH EAST

Elected: Daniel Hannan (Conservative), John Howarth (Lab), Catherine Bearder (Lib Dem), Antony Hook (Lib Dem), Judith Bunting (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Brexit Party), Alex Phillips (Brexit Party), Robert Rowland (Brexit Party), Belinda De Camborne Lucy (Brexit Party), Alexandra Phillips (Green)

Brexit Party 915,686 (36.07%)

Lib Dem 653,743 (25.75%, +17.71%)

Green 343,249 (13.52%, +4.46%)

Conservative 260,277 (10.25%, -20.70%)

Lab 184,678 (7.27%, -7.39%)

Change UK 105,832 (4.17%)

UKIP 56,487 (2.22%, -29.91%)

SOUTH WEST

Elected: Caroline Voaden (Lib Dem), Martin Horwood (Lib Dem), Ann Widdecombe (Brexit Party), James Glancy (Brexit Party), Christina Jordan (Brexit Party), Molly Scott Cato (Green)

Brexit Party 611,742 (36.71%)

Lib Dem 385,095 (23.11%, +12.41%)

Green 302,364 (18.14%, +7.04%)

Conservative 144,674 (8.68%, -20.21%)

Lab 108,100 (6.49%, -7.26%)

UKIP 53,739 (3.22%, -29.07%)

Change UK 46,612 (2.80%)

WALES

Elected: Jackie Jones (Lab), Jill Evans (Plaid Cymru), Nathan Gill (Brexit Party), James Wells (Brexit Party)

Brexit Party 271,404 (31.33%)

Plaid Cymru 193,928 (22.39%, +7.13%)

Lab 127,833 (14.76%, -13.39%)

Lib Dem 113,885 (13.15%, +9.20%)

Conservative 54,587 (6.30%, -11.12%)

Green 52,660 (6.08%, +1.54%)

UKIP 27,566 (3.18%, -24.37%)

Change UK 24,332 (2.81%)

WEST MIDLANDS

Elected: Anthea McIntyre (Conservative), Neena Gill (Lab), Phil Bennion (Lib Dem), Rupert Lowe (Brexit Party), Martin Daubney (Brexit Party), Andrew England Kerr (Brexit Party), Ellie Chowns (Green)

Brexit Party 507,152 (37.66%)

Lab 228,298 (16.95%, -9.76%)

Lib Dem 219,982 (16.33%, +10.77%)

Green 143,520 (10.66%, +5.40%)

Conservative 135,279 (10.04%, -14.27%)

UKIP 66,934 (4.97%, -26.52%)

Change UK 45,673 (3.39%)

YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

Elected: Richard Corbett (Lab), Shaffaq Mohammed (Lib Dem), John Longworth (Brexit Party), Lucy Harris (Brexit Party), Jake Pugh (Brexit Party), Magid Magid (Green)

Brexit Party 470,351 (36.48%)

Lab 210,516 (16.33%, -12.99%)

Lib Dem 200,180 (15.53%, +9.27%)

Green 166,980 (12.95%, +5.06%)

Conservative 92,863 (7.20%, -12.00%)

UKIP 56,100 (4.35%, -26.78%)

Yorkshire Party 50,842 (3.94%)

Change UK 30,162 (2.34%)

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