Nigel Farage warns Brexit voters may have to wait until 2022 until vote is FULLY honoured

NIGEL FARAGE has warned voters may have to wait until 2022 before they start to see the Brexit they voted for in June 2016.

Theresa May is set to fight off a series of amendments from the House of Lords to the Government’s Withdrawal Bill, which threaten to keep the UK in the customs union and European Economic Area.
The Prime Minister has called for unity among Conservatives as the Brexit votes in the Commons near.

Nigel Farage explained why the Prime Minister is struggling to deliver Brexit for the British people.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, he said: “The problem here is that Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief negotiator has known from the start that Mrs May is not prepared to walk away.

             Brexit news: Nigel Farage claimed Brexit voters will have to wait until 2022 to see changes

“That is why what you have seen is a never-ending series of concessions, a kicking of the can down the road.

“It will be at least 2022-23 before we get anything like Brexit voters thought they were voting on.”
If the opposition votes completely against Theresa May, it will take around a dozen Tory rebels to defeat the government.

Speaking at the G7 conference in Canada, she said: “Let’s remember what the Withdrawal Bill is for. It’s about delivering a statute book that is ready for Brexit day.

“Of course, the Lords has a revising role to play but some of the amendments that were passed and the comments that were made went far beyond that. You had peers talking about stopping Brexit or trying to tie the Government’s hands in the negotiations.”

Speaking on LBC, leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg urged Brexit supporters to remain “calm” ahead of the key votes.

He said: “I think people should be calm that inevitably in this negotiation and in this process, people sometimes get frustrated.

“The backstop deal is a problem, that it depends what is in it and it depends on the time limit.
“What really matters is the Withdrawal Bill going through parliament this week. Very importantly an article jointly authored by Amber Rudd and Iain Duncan Smith saying basically if you don’t vote for this you risk getting Jeremy Corbyn.

“There are further discussions to have on how we leave, but this is just bringing in the decision to leave and there is quite a lot of unity in the Conservative Party at the moment so, I’m optimistic about what is happening.

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Nigel Farage is a British politician who has been the leader of the UK Independence Party since October 2016.                                             Nigel Farage in pictures 

“I think it is going slowly and in the right direction, more slowly than I would like, but still in the right direction.”

Sarah Wollaston, a Conservative MP who voted against the Government on a meaningful vote amendment in December, spoke to the Today programme about how she would vote on the amendments in the Commons.

She said: “At the moment I think the issues around the EEA and EFTA for example, that will probably be decided another day because we have got a lot of opportunities to come back to that.
“We would like to see further concessions on the amendment on the customs union because it’s just a very sensible amendment that just says keep it on the table, don’t completely rule it out.”
Ms Wollaston also highlighted the importance of the “meaningful role” amendment after exit negotiations are complete.