Nigel Farage has told Sky News he would not vote or campaign in a second Brexit referendum if the choice was between Theresa May’s deal or Remain.

The MEP, who has pushed for decades to leave the EU, told the All Out Politics programme that the prime minister’s deal was “Brexit in name only”.

“Honestly, if we are offered Brexit in name only, or Remain, why on Earth would I vote? I would go on holiday. It would be an outrage.

“I wouldn’t campaign and I wouldn’t vote because it wouldn’t offer me Brexit.

“Remain shouldn’t even be on the ballot paper, but if we are forced to this, it would have to be Remain or a clean Brexit,” he added.

Labour has come out in support of a second referendum, with the party’s shadow Brexit secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, telling Sky News the choice should be between a “credible Leave option and Remain”.

Mr Farage was speaking before Mrs May promised MPs a vote on leaving without a deal or delaying Brexit if her plan is again rejected by them next month.

In a statement to the House of Commons, Mrs May confirmed a “meaningful vote” will be held by 12 March, but Mr Farage was dismissive of her efforts.

“What she’s gone for is a Remainer’s Brexit.

“It is Brexit in name only. Even in the best-case scenario, it would be six or seven years after voting Brexit that we could arrange any new trade deals with anyone else in the world.”

He suggested that a second referendum result would be invalid if significant numbers of Leave supporters followed his lead and refused to take part.

“You have to have a certain level of turnout for any referendum to be valid,” he said.

Despite more than two years of negotiations, the terms on which the UK will leave the EU are still unclear, as are Britain’s future trading relationships with EU members.

The failure to secure a deal has prompted many to call for an extension to Article 50 beyond the end of March.

But Mr Farage insisted that should not be sanctioned, as “it won’t be extended once, it will be extended again and again and again”.

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