Farage launches the Brexit Party and unveils his secret weapon... Rees-Mogg's little SISTER: Ex-'Cameron cutie' Annunziata, 40, stuns the Tories by defecting just HOURS before vowing to take on 'far-right' UKIP in EU elections

• Nigel Farage launched Brexit Party and started war of words with UKIP as he unveiled Annunziata Rees-Mogg 
• Jacob's younger sister stood as Tory in 2005 and 2010 general elections - but refused to 'de-toff' her name  
• She said: 'The Prime Minister will not listen to the people - I can't sit by and let her do it. We need to fight back' 
• Her brother told MailOnline: 'The Brexit Party is fortunate to have such a high calibre candidate. I am sorry that Annunziata has left the Conservative party'. 
• Farage says new home will beat UKIP and has bet £1,000 on Brexit Party winning the most seats on May 23
• Tory MEP David Campbell Bannerman said party 'will get a kicking' at polls and lose half of their 18 MEPs

Nigel Farage launched his new Brexit Party and announced Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister Annunziata as his first star MEP candidate -  after she quit the Tories after 35 years today.

The former UKIP leader has vowed to take votes from the 'tarnished' party he left in December and started a new war of words with successor Gerard Batten by claiming he lacks 'good people' and has allowed a 'take over' by the far right.

Launching the party in Coventry today Mr Farage said it is 'no more Mr Nice Guy' before unveiling his secret weapon Ms Rees-Mogg, whose brother told MailOnline today: 'The Brexit Party is fortunate to have such a high calibre candidate but I am sorry that Annunziata has left the Conservative party'.

His younger sister previously stood as a Tory candidate in the 2005 and 2010 general elections and joined the party aged five - but has now jumped ship after Theresa May failed to deliver Brexit. She defected from the Tories to join Mr Farage's revolt today.

The 40-year-old mother-of-one, once one of David Cameron's 'cuties' who refused party requests to 'de-toff' her name to Nancy, blasted MPs, including her older sibling, saying: 'The politicians are not our masters - they are to do our bidding. We need to fight back to take back our democracy. It's as drastic as that. It is our fight and we must fight to win'. 

She said she had stuck with the Tories 'through thick and thin' but Brexit had been the last straw.

She said: 'But the point at which our Prime Minister will not listen, not only to her membership, but will not listen to the people of her country. I can't sit by and let her do it. We've got to rescue our democracy, we have got to show that the people of this country have a say in how we are run'. 

Theresa May's Tories are in crisis over her failure to steer Britain out of the EU with the party ten points down in the polls. Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman said today the party 'will get a kicking' on May 23 and lose half of their 18 MEPs. 

Labour has also lost ground, according to the BMG poll, down three points, with the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, Independent Group and Brexit Party are all closely matched at approaching 10 per cent. 

As his party faces a massacre at the polls, Chancellor Philip Hammond today insisted he believes MPs can still agree a Brexit deal after Easter to avoid the elections and said: 'Clearly nobody wants to fight the European elections - it feels like a pointless exercise. We want to ensure that any British MEPs never have to take their seats'.

He also admitted the idea of second referendum ‘very likely’ to be put to Parliament. 

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Annunziata Rees-Mogg was unveiled as the Brexit Party's star candidate at the European Elections by Nigel Farage today and she blasted MPs including her brother, pictured yesterday

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Nigel Farage and Annunziata Rees-Mogg at the launch of the Brexit Party's European Parliament elections campaign in Coventry

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Nigel Farage launched his new Brexit Party in Coventry today as he vowed to take votes from 'tarnished' UKIP

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Tory support appears to be in free fall amid the Brexit chaos as a new poll showed the party down 10 per cent in a month with Farage's new party neck-and-neck with UKIP

Ms Rees-Mogg, 40, and her brother Jacob, 49, are the youngest of five children born to Lord Rees-Mogg, who edited The Times from 1967 to 1981, and his wife Lady Gillian. They grew up together at the grand Ston Easton Park estate near Wells in Somerset, which has since been turned into a luxury hotel. 

If she stands in the south-west as an MEP her ERG Brexiteer brother, who is believed to be worth £150million, will have to campaign against her.   

However, as Annunziata's views on Brexit have hardened, her brother's have softened as today he shared an article urging Brexiteers 'diehards' to 'wake from No Deal dreams' and said: 'I think this is analysis is correct which is why I backed Mrs May’s deal last time'.

Ms Rees-Mogg explained she has been a full-time mother for the last eight years, adding she wanted to 'avoid the negative comments... and the violence that can come from putting your name above the parapet and standing for what you believe in', and she didn't want her children to suffer.

She said: 'I joined the Conservative Party in 1984 and this is not a decision I have made lightly - to leave a party for which I have fought at every election since 1987, from Maggie Thatcher through to Theresa May.

'I know which one I'd rather have representing us now.'

Mr Farage has admitted there is 'no difference' in policies between UKIP and the Brexit Party - but said he would not tolerate racism and would will field 'many Muslim candidates' in the May European elections. 

He said: 'UKIP did struggle to get enough good people into it but unfortunately what it's chosen to do is allow the far right to join it and take it over and I'm afraid the brand is now tarnished.'

Today he put a £1,000 bet on that the Brexit Party would win the most seats next month and revealed the public have donated £750,000 to the campaign fund in ten days.

Mr Farage said that the Leave vote had 'hardened' since the 2016 referendum, and made clear he was also appealing to Remainers who felt the result should be respected.

'There are many people who voted Remain who believe that democracy is so fundamental to this country, to who we are as a people, that unless the will of the people is carried out something will have changed in our nation forever,' he said.

'With a bit of luck and a following wind, trying our hardest, I think we can turn this around.

'I know this is a battle that we shouldn't be having to fight, but we are having to fight it and we are going to win it.'

Mr Farage introduced Ms Rees-Mogg on stage as one of 70 Brexit Party candidates who would be fighting the May 23 elections in England, Scotland and Wales.

Current UKIP leader Gerard Batten has defended the party's links to Tommy Robinson and insists he has saved the party 'from oblivion' and Mr Farage quit.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6914049/Farage-vows-fightback-against-establishment-betrayal-Brexit.html 

NWN; Deja Vu ? Farage to 'take on far right ? We have seen this before. Farage was one of the group of people who toppled John Tyndall from the leadership of the BNP in the late 1990's. Others included ; Tony 'bomber' Lecomber, Dr Mark Deavin and of course Nigel Farage. Nick Griffin, though not in the below pic, was 'in the circle' to rid the BNP of John Tyndall. ERGO to smash the BNP.

 And a quick search on the web brings up this text;

Then came the most disturbing titbit of all: a blurred photo, taken in the summer of 1997, showing Nigel Farage of UKIP chatting to two men. One was Tony “the bomber” Lecomber, the other was Mark Deavin, head of research for the BNP, who had briefly infiltrated UKIP but was expelled in May 1997 after his true affiliations were discovered.
Deavin, who edited Mindbenders, an “expose” of Jews in the media, is also the author of The Grand Plan: The Origins of Non-White Immigration, in which he argues that “the mass immigration of non-Europeans into every White country on earth” had been engineered by “a homogeneous transatlantic political and financial elite to destroy the national identities and create a raceless new world order.” Homogeneous, eh? Allow Deavin to explain: “These concerns were Jewish in origin… the promotion of World Government can also be seen to be in line with traditional Jewish messianic thinking.”
When the photo was sent anonymously to the UKIP a few months ago, Farage expressed bafflement. While admitting that “I briefly met Mr Deavin at his request on June 17 1997, and had lunch with him in a restaurant,” he insisted that “I have no recollection of ever meeting or speaking to Mr Lecomber in my life… I can only surmise that Mr Lecomber was planted outside the restaurant or that the photograph has been doctored.”
Whatever the explanation, the fact that Farage met Deavin after the BNP man’s expulsion was enough to alarm some UKIP members – especially as Farage, who earns his living as a City commodity-broker, is a man who often used words such as “nigger” and “nig-nog” in the pub after committee meetings. A month after the lunch, by an odd coincidence, Deavin wrote an article in the far-right journal Spearhead which discussed the possibility of closer relations between the BNP and UKIP.
But here’s an even stranger coincidence. Shortly before the 1997 general election, Mark Deavin spoke freely of his plans to undercover researchers from Searchlight magazine and The Cook Report, who had posed as emissaries from Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National. One necessary step, he said, was to get rid of the BNP leader John Tyndall (“who is actually an obstacle”) and replace him with Deavin’s chum Nick Griffin. This would leave one other obstacle. “If Blair becomes prime minister,” Deavin predicted, “the BNP will be the official opposition in the inner cities, in working-class areas. The UKIP will be the opposition in the shires, the county areas, the middle-class opposition. That party is a serious opposition to us in middle England, but, if we had the resources, we could tear it to pieces.”
Two weeks ago, at the same time as UKIP was tearing itself apart in Solihull, Nick Griffin duly toppled John Tyndall and promised a “realignment” of the far-right. He may not yet have the popular appeal of Jörg Haider; but he certainly needs watching.