{"id":403270,"date":"2019-04-17T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nigel-farages-brexit-party-set-to-storm-eu-elections-with-shock-win-poll-finds-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:21:13","slug":"nigel-farages-brexit-party-set-to-storm-eu-elections-with-shock-win-poll-finds-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nigel-farages-brexit-party-set-to-storm-eu-elections-with-shock-win-poll-finds-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage\u2019s Brexit Party set to storm EU elections with shock win, poll finds \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb74772fc7e93c2228b4567.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        The new Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, is on course to cause a political earthquake at next month\u2019s EU Parliament elections, with a new survey showing his anti-EU group ahead of both Labour and the Tories.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>YouGov, one of Britain\u2019s main polling companies, has Farage\u2019s Brexit Party at 27 percent, five points ahead of Labour and well ahead of PM Theresa May\u2019s Conservatives at 15 percent, with just a few weeks to go until elections on May 23.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmSLQsUhxGQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The newly-formed party has surged 12 percent in less than a week, with Farage\u2019s former party, UKIP, suffering the most from the pro-Brexit group\u2019s incarnation, plunging seven percent over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-EU, second referendum advocates, Change UK &#8211; The Independent Group, headed by former Tory Heidi Allen, are trailing in the Brexit Party\u2019s wake, polling at a lowly six percent.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the EU election polls is familiar territory for Farage, having led UKIP to victory in 2014, securing 26.6 percent of the vote. His former party nosedived in the YouGov survey under the leadership of Gerard Batten.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/456324-farage-brexit-launch-ukip\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">The Brexit Party: UKIP but without the far-right, claims Nigel Farage<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxs\/5cb064b4fc7e938b738b4593.JPG 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xs\/5cb064b4fc7e938b738b4594.JPG 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cb064b4fc7e938b738b4592.JPG 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/m\/5cb064b4fc7e938b738b4595.JPG 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/l\/5cb064b4fc7e938b738b4596.JPG 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/article\/5cb064b3fc7e938b738b4591.JPG 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxl\/5cb064b5fc7e938b738b4597.JPG 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farage launched his new party on Friday, claiming they would mirror UKIP on policies, but when it came to their members and candidates up for election, there would be no far-right faction, which has dogged his former party.<\/p>\n<p>One of those candidates standing for election will be Annunziata Rees-Mogg, the sister of Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. She has twice stood to be a Conservative MP, but has now left after 35 years to join Farage\u2019s army of Brexiteers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/subscribe\/\" id=\"subscribe-focus\">Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/456829-brexit-farage-eu-polls\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, is on course to cause a political earthquake at next month\u2019s EU Parliament elections, with a new survey showing his anti-EU group ahead of both Labour and the Tories. YouGov, one of Britain\u2019s main polling companies, has Farage\u2019s Brexit Party at 27 percent, five points ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}