New Ukip leader Diane James gives her first speech

Bournemouth, England Nigel Farage, the firebrand of Britain’s Brexit campaign, used his final speech as leader of the UK Independence Party on Friday to demand that his successor pushes for a “hard” European Union exit that meets the demands of his party’s voters.

She has insisted that Brexit must mean “100% European Union exit” and that the pressure must be maintained on Prime Minister Theresa May’s government.

Mrs James, a former immigration spokesman, won the contest to replace Mr Farage, with 8,451 votes almost twice as many as her nearest rival.

“I am truly honoured to take on from Nigel and I am immensely grateful for what you betrothed on me”.

“It does need to professionalise and to change, but a new broom sweeps clean”.

In her pitch to succeed Mr Farage, who has led the party for nearly all of the past nine years, Ms James pledged to bring a “different” leadership style to UKIP, saying she would harness the “scale of depth of talent” among the party’s membership, local representatives and MEPs.

Mr Farage said earlier he was “not going away” but would “support the new leader”. “I am not even Nigel lite”.

“What I will be doing is stepping into his leadership shoes, but I will be doing everything to achieve the political success that he’s handing over to me”.

She said: “Let me ask you, where do you think that money should actually be spent rather than homing criminals from a different nation”.

“Professionalism.will be top of my agenda”. She defeated four other candidates in a ballot of party members.

Mr Nuttall told delegates: “I will be frank at this point, because I can be now”.

She accused the Conservative Party of stealing many of Ukip’s policies and branded the Prime Minister “Magpie May”. She said: “It’s going to take me a while to come back to Earth”.

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Laying out his vision for what a post-EU Britain must look like, he said: “We will judge whether Brexit means Brexit for me on three very simple measures”.

“But the United Kingdom signature is not yet dry on that document”.

“Mrs May, you’re now looking and if you’re watching TV this afternoon, you’ll be watching the opposition party in waiting”.

In total, 17,970 votes were cast in the contest.

Another beholden Leave voter added he would be eternally grateful to Mr Farage for returning Britain to its former glory.

The MEP, who shot to fame after only narrowly coming second in the Eastleigh by-election in 2013, came in ahead of Lisa Duffy in second, with Bill Etheridge in third, Philip Broughton in fourth and Elizabeth Jones in fifth.