As MPs prepare to restart five days of debate on Theresa May’s controversial withdrawal agreement on January 9, it has emerged that the Mr Farage – one of the most prominent Brexiteers – had a hidden agenda during the 2016 referendum campaign. In 2015, the former Ukip leader announced his party would join the Leave.EU campaign, an organisation founded and funded by party backer Arron Banks. The campaign, along with rival organisation Vote Leave, aimed to be formally designated as the lead campaign for the Leave referendum vote by the Electoral Commission.
Mr Farage gave a public endorsement at the party's annual conference in Doncaster but he later clarified that he backed both Leave campaigns as they "targeted different audiences".
In his 2016 book "What next: How to get the best from Brexit", Conservative MEP and Vote Leave campaigner Daniel Hannan shockingly claimed that Mr Farage was secretly trying to achieve personal success instead of achieving Brexit and supporting both campaigns.
Referring to the controversial "Breaking Point" anti-immigration poster unveiled by Mr Farage in June 2016, Mr Hannan wrote: “Since the vote, there has been a concerted attempt to re-write the
