Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage, received a baffling call into his LBC show, that left him asking “do you see the point?”. Self-described “ardent Remainer” Graham from Hove admitted to Mr Farage that he didn’t “know anybody who voted to leave at all”. He defended Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, saying “over the last few years, I’m now praying, even though I’m not a religious person, that Boris Johnson comes back with May’s deal with a slight change to the backstop and we just get out”.

He added: “I just think it’s the most sensible, pragmatic thing to do.”

The former Ukip leader took the opportunity to ask if Graham liked the idea because he knew that having it would mean the UK “hadn’t really left” the EU.

Graham replied: “I could live it. The reality is I like being European, I trust the people in Europe and I just think that this has gotten so divisive.

“The idea that Boris Johnson would take us out with no deal, even if 50 percent of the horror stories are true, I just think the resentment and anger in the country will never go.”

He added: “In any divorce, nobody really gets everything that they want and I just think it’s the most sensible, pragmatic thing to do and say let’s just put this behind us.”

He then asked the LBC host: “I know that you feel that the deal that Theresa May has brought to the table is worse than staying in.

“Yet if you were in a position where you had two choices: either accept the deal or stay in, what would you choose?”

Mr Farage immediately replied: “Stay at home.”

He said: “Graham, I want to make one point to you and it’s a really, really important point. Here it is: whenever I talk at public meetings, events around the country, about Europe, not the European Union because they’re two different things in my view, you will find that the vast majority of leave voters actually rather love Europe.

“We love Europe, we love the idea of different countries, different cultures, we want trade with Europe, we want friendship with Europe, we want reciprocity with Europe.

“But we do believe the individual nation state is the right way forward.”

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The Brexit Party leader said: “And we believe, Graham, that these glass and steel structures that have been built in Brussels, who’ve invented for themselves, a flag and anthem and unelected presidents, we just don’t recognise that as Europe. Do you see that point?”

Graham said: “I do see that point, but I just don’t feel frightened of it. I love being British, although it’s not a great time to be British right now.

“I do understand what you’re saying, I just don’t feel as scared about it. I still can feel extremely British whilst being in the European Union.”

Mr Farage insisted that he couldn’t whilst “being governed by Jean-Claude Juncker” to which Graham said that the outgoing European Commission President seemed “like a real good bloke”.

The LBC presenter laughed: “I quite like him as a person, but that’s not the point.”

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