“I’d say to them, listen, our trading relationship today is exactly the same as it was yesterday”.
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On Friday, Farage was criticised for declaring Vote Leave had won without a “single bullet being fired”.
Farage said guaranteeing the money for healthcare coffers was “one of the mistakes I think the Leave campaign made”.
However, when asked just an hour after the pro-Brexit results on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” whether he would guarantee that the money pledged for the health service during the campaign would now be spent on it, the leader of the eurosceptic U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) said he had never made any such pledge.
He said: “The Conservative party has literally split down the middle over this and I know a lot of Conservative MPs I’ve spoken to who feel that frankly the way he [David Cameron] and [George] Osborne have behaved in this campaign has been appalling”.
Some who voted in favor of a British exit have said they merely wanted to lodge a protest vote and hadn’t expected the “leave” camp to actually win.
Mr Farage, who has been heralded as the big victor of last night’s vote to leave the European Union, made his comments at a Leave.EU victory rally in Central London around 4.30am.
By now you’ve probably heard that the British public have voted in favour of leaving the European Union. The real estate mogul this morning praised the referendum vote, Tweeting out, “Self-determination is the sacred right of all free people’s, and the people of the United Kingdom have exercised that right for all the world to see”. He argued that he was at times even ostracized from the Leave campaign.
“June the 23rd needs to become a national bank holiday, and we will call it Independence Day“, Mr. Farage declared. “I hope we’ve knocked the first brick out of the wall”.
Host Susanna Reid, quizzing Farage on the numbers, said: “That’s why many people have voted!”
He added: “It wasn’t one of my adverts – I can assure you!”
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“We now need a Brexit government”, he told reporters outside parliament.
