Mr Berkeley-Hurst, who is standing in the Welsh Labour heartland seat of Wrexham, insisted the party will be in for a shock when the country goes to the polls in December. Wrexham, in northeast Wales, has been a Labour stronghold since 1935, but polling indicates it may finally be vulnerable to being lost. The area voted to leave the EU 59-41 percent in 2016 and Mr Berkely-Hurst insisted the people are frustrated at the mainstream parties.

He said: “I think in terms of Labour, they’re going to get a shock, because they’ve gone from being a party that had a policy to being a party that’s almost Monty Python.

“They’re running a story to their voters that’s impossible to sell – and their voters are not stupid!

“And from our point of view, a lot of them are coming to us and saying: ‘It’s clear where you’re going, we voted Leave, we will go with you.’”

Monty Python, known for their bizarre surrealist comedy, produced sketches like the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Dead Parrot sketch.

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Jeremy Corbyn was laughed at by the ITV audience during the debate with Boris Johnson, after he claimed Labour has been “very clear” what their Brexit policy is.

Mr Corbyn’s Labour Party have been criticised for flip-flopping on Brexit, after first promising to honour the referendum in their 2017 manifesto, then suggesting a second referendum and also claiming to want to negotiate a new deal.

Mr Berkeley-Hurst added that he believes the Conservatives will win the election, but that the Brexit Party are key to making sure Mr Johnson does not renege on his promise of “getting Brexit done”.

He said: “Boris only acts if he’s got a threat. You know, he got the DUP, led them up the path to the altar and them dumped them at the altar, left them high and dry.

“If we have enough people in Parliament – and we could have 50, we could have 20 – we can put pressure on him and we can hold him to a trade deal, one that is appropriate for our country and takes the country forward.”

He added: “I think a lot of Conservatives are looking around and saying ‘Well, he’s not necessarily reliable, he says different things to different people to get results.’

“And so they may be saying: ‘Well, the Brexit Party has been solid all the way through’. “

Mr Berkeley-Hurst is confident that Labour will lose this seat and his optimism is not entirely unjustified.

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Professor Roger Awan-Scully from Cardiff University suggested Wales could be in for an “electoral earthquake” that could result in the first post-war election without a Labour majority in Wales.

He highlighted 10 seats that Labour are set to lose if the latest YouGov polling translated into votes and Wrexham was on the list.

Long-standing Labour MP Ian Lucas is standing down, and the Conservatives are also fielding a fresh face.

However, Wrexham is likely to be a target seat for the Tories too, leading some argue that the Brexit Party are splitting the Leave vote.

However, Mr Berkeley-Hurst insisted that the European Parliament election results in May bode well for the Brexit Party in the coming election.

A huge 37 percent of the vote went to Nigel Farage’s party in Wrexham, followed by 15 percent to Labour, 14 percent to Plaid Cymru, 13 percent to the Liberal Democrats and 8 percent to the Tories.

Mr Berkeley-Hurst even suggested that the “logical” thing would be for the Conservatives to stand down in Wrexham, as the Brexit Party have done in 317 Tory seats.

Mr Farage’s decision to back down in Tory seats has been contentious, with one candidate claiming he “dropped us like a stone”.

However, Mr Berkeley-Hurst said he thinks Mr Farage was being “pragmatic”.

He said: “There’s no question that the type of treaty that Boris has negotiated is terrible – we certainly don’t want it – but I suspect that if he gets a majority in Parliament he will change it when he negotiates with the EU.

“From our point of view, we weighed up all the figures for the best seats and realised that if we weren’t careful, we could actually end up with a Labour–Scottish Nationalist situation.

“So I think, pragmatically, Nigel took the right view, I totally support him and we looked at the seats we could realistically win.”

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