I will fight tooth and nail to get us out, Brexit Party MEP ANNUNZIATA ...

I will be there to attend a Parliament with little democratic legitimacy in order to elect Presidents and Vice Presidents to a Commission that has no claim to democracy at all.

I confess to being intrigued, we have all read and heard about the deals done in dark corners, horse trading in the corridors of power, decisions over sumptuous meals at European taxpayers expense. I will let you know what I find. 

I go to Brussels and Strasbourg for one reason. I made this perfectly clear in the election campaign in which the Brexit Party topped the poll in my region of the East Midlands.

I go to leave. I go to fight tooth and nail for the democracy of our great nation to be enacted. I go to get us out: cleanly, swiftly and smoothly.

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As the largest delegation of any party from any country, we will ensure our voices, the voices of our electors, are heard. That fight begins tomorrow.

Today I travel to Birmingham. In the heart of the country. We have sold out the NEC one of the largest venues in the country.

Over 5,500 are coming to join us, on a Sunday afternoon, in a heatwave. 

This is unprecedented in recent years. Politics wasn't appealing, it was aloof, condescending and opaque. Why would anyone travel to see politicians from the legacy parties speak when they would only hear half truths and obfuscation?

Yet we believe in democracy and that is why we will continue holding events - 11 regional ones are planned for September - and we are preparing the technology to allow us to have real policy input from real people, something the old parties run scared of because they don't trust the people.  

Annunziata Rees-MoggWith different professions and religions, we came together because we know politics needs to change (Image: Getty)

The Brexit Party is not of the same mould as the traditional parties. Our elected MEPs and our candidates come from all walks of life.

With different professions, sexual orientations, religions and ethnicities we came together because we know politics needs to change.

We need to restore faith in our democracy - not only by ensuring promises are enacted but by telling it as it is, doing what we say, and fighting for our electors and our country.

This is no longer about party politics or personal egos it is about the future of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, about our democracy and about our rule of law. 

At Birmingham today we will also be launching the first tranche of our

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