2 Jan 2021
Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that after completing his “life’s work” of securing the United Kingdom’s independence from the European Union, his next major campaign will be to reduce Britain’s dependence on China.
Mr Farage said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) represents an “even bigger challenge” and a “bigger threat to our independence, our way of life,” and liberty itself than the European Union.
“China is doing their absolute best to take over the world; they’re throttling democracy in Hong Kong and they’ll do their best to do it elsewhere. They’ve taken over many of the resources in Africa,” said the leader of the Brexit Party, currently in the process of rebranding as Reform UK, on his YouTube channel.
MEPs and where they are now including Brexit Party s Ann Widdecombe and former Ukip leader Nigel Farage
Published: 06:00, 29 December 2020
With just days to go until the UK begins life alone we ll be bringing you a series of features looking back at our strained relationship with Europe and exploring how we reached this point. Today
political editor
The European Parliament Picture: PPCoe
To their harshest detractors, MEPs elected to the European Parliament had modest powers, were largely invisible and were on a lavish publicly-funded gravy train; to their supporters they were a vital cog in the democratic checks and balances of what had grown into a huge political institution.
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