Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party could be heading for victory when the European elections take place later this month. The results from Thursday’s local elections in England were announced on Friday, and showed especially the Tories suffering a humiliating defeat. The Prime Minister’s party lost more than 1,300 councillors and 44 councils – a result experts have branded a total disaster and worse than the “worst-case scenario” for the party.

Labour on their end, also had a disastrous election, losing six councils and 81 councillors, in an election they expected to gain support from.

It’s believed Thursday’s council elections were used by British voters to punish Theresa May’s party over its failure to deliver Brexit.

The UK was expected to leave the EU on March 29, but has been delayed to October 31 unless the parts can reach an agreement before.

And with Brits returning to the polls for the European elections in about three weeks time, the two main parties could be in for another humiliating defeat – and could imply the Brexit Party will make huge gains.

Poll guru Sir John Curtice argued the results of Thursday local elections have made it clear the British two-party system has failed to satisfy the electorate a solution to the Brexit impasse.

He added the results will have put a smile on Nigel Farage’s face.

Sir John said: “It looks as though if you weren’t associated with a party at all in some instances the more attractive you looked to an electorate that’s basically seems to be saying not just ‘I’m a Leaver, why haven’t you delivered Brexit?’ or ‘I’m a Remainer, I want a second referendum’.

“But frankly ‘Why are both of you making what we rather think it’s a bit of a mess of it all’.

“Certainly, one thing this tells us is that an apparent restoration of the two-party system that we saw in the 2017 general election when Conservatives and Labour combined got over 80 percent of the votes – the highest combined share since 1970 – that looks like a rather short-lived phenomenon.

“These two parties, even without Brexit Party on one hand or Change UK on the other contesting these local elections, have seen that support has fallen away quite substantially.

“Now what they would do, therefore, in the European elections when voters seem willing to vote for the smaller parties anyway, the prognosis doesn’t look that good for either of them.

“And Nigel Farage probably has a smile on his face this morning.”

The Brexit Party was only launched last month but has already leapfrogged over all the other parties in the polls.

The party seems to have picked up where UKIP under Mr Farage left off and a poll conducted by YouGov between April 23 and 26 is seeing the Brexit Party head the survey with 28 percent of the votes, up five percent from a prior survey.

The newly launched party could see an even bigger jump after Thursday’s election, with the British people clearly stating they are not happy with the UK’s two main parties.

YouGov conducted the survey between April 23 and 26 and 5,412 British adults took part.

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