A Ukip MEP has announced she is quitting the party to join Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party.
West Midlands MEP Jill Seymour said that under current leader Gerard Batten, Ukip had moved to “the extreme right of politics”.
I have tendered my resignation from UKIP, and will see out the remainder of my MEP mandate as a @brexitparty_uk representative pic.twitter.com/gVcpJp0GQ6
— Jill Seymour MEP (@JSeymourUKIP) April 15, 2019
“I am not walking away from the party’s original core principles, but the present party’s direction means it has walked away from me, and its original membership,” she said.
“I shall now be sitting as an officially designated Brexit Party MEP for the remainder of my mandate in the European Parliament.”
Her move follows the announcement last week that the sister of leading Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg, Annunziata, had left the Conservative Party to stand as a Brexit Party candidate in next month’s elections to the European Parliament.
