By Policy Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:36 BST, 22 April 2019 | Updated: 00:36 BST, 22 April 2019
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Nigel Farage said yesterday that he is planning a ‘northern attack’ on Labour-voting Leave areas.
It came as Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, called for his party to back a second Brexit referendum.
Mr Farage, leader of the new Brexit Party, which last week surged to a shock lead in the polls, said he would be targeting ‘Labour lies and dishonesty’ in the run-up to the European Parliament elections on May 23.
![Mr Farage said he was planning a ‘northern attack’ in response to Labour’s change of heart over Brexit. Last week a poll found his Brexit Party was in the lead on 27 per cent, with Labour on 22 per cent and the Tories on 15 per cent [File photo]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/22/00/12552488-0-Less_than_a_quarter_of_Tory_members_are_planning_on_voting_Conse-a-7_1555889121275.jpg)
Mr Farage said he was planning a ‘northern attack’ in response to Labour’s change of heart over Brexit. Last week a poll found his Brexit Party was in the lead on 27 per cent, with Labour on 22 per cent and the Tories on 15 per cent [File photo]
He said any notion of a second referendum would be a ‘total insult’ to the five million Labour supporters who voted Leave.
But Mr Watson insisted Labour backing for a second – or ‘confirmatory’ – referendum was the only way to respond to the challenge posed by Mr Farage.
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