By Jack Elsom For Mailonline
Published: 20:33 GMT, 26 February 2019 | Updated: 20:40 GMT, 26 February 2019
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Nigel Farage has said that he would not campaign or even bother to vote in a second referendum if the choice was between Remain or Theresa May's deal - which he slammed as 'Brexit in name only'.
The former UKIP leader, who quit the anti-EU party in December last year, said he would rather go on holiday than cast his ballot because a 'clean Brexit' would not be on offer.
Speaking to Sky News's All Out Politics, the 54-year-old said: '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.
Nigel Farage (pictured speaking for the campaign group Leave Means Leave) is a long-time critic of the EU and played an active part in the 2016 Brexit referendum
'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.'
The arch-Eurosceptic who campaigned for Leave in the 2016 referendum suggested that a fresh poll would be invalid if similarly disgruntled Brexiteers also boycotted the vote.
He told Sky's Adam Boulton: 'You have to have a certain level of turnout for any referendum to be valid.'
Although Mr Farage was shunned by the designated Vote Leave campaign group in 2016 he played an active part in the unofficial Grassroots Out movement.
This saw him go head-to-head with then Prime Minister David Cameron in an ITV audience debate and travel around the country to mobilise Brexit supporters.
The former UKIP leader suggested a second vote could be invalid if disgruntled Leave voters boycotted it
Mr Farage is still a Member of the European Parliament where he leads the Eurosceptic group, Europe for Freedom and Democracy
Mr Farage's comments come after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn finally threw his party's weight behind a second referendum.
He told a meeting of his MPs last night that backing another vote would be better than a 'damaging' Tory deal.
Mr Corbyn said: 'The Prime Minister is recklessly running down the clock, in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her botched deal and a disastrous No Deal we cannot and will not accept.
'Last week, after our visit to talk to EU officials and leaders in Brussels and Madrid, no one can be in any doubt Labour's alternative Brexit plan is serious and credible.'
He added: 'We will also be backing the Cooper-Letwin amendment to rule out a No Deal outcome.
'One way or another, we will do everything in our power to prevent No Deal and oppose a damaging Tory Brexit based on Theresa May's overwhelmingly rejected deal.
This week Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that his party would back another referendum - with Remain on the ballot paper - if their Brexit plan was voted down by MPs
'That's why, in line with our conference policy, we are committed to also putting forward or supporting an amendment in favour of a public vote to prevent a damaging Tory Brexit being
