Farage Invites Corbyn To Join European Union ‘No’ Campaign

At the launch of Ukip’s campaign to leave the EU Mr Farage said it would be the “largest outreach campaign in the history of Euroscepticism”.

The remarks came as the Ukip launched its “Say No to EU” campaign – which will hold 300 meetings, deliver six million leaflets employ 12 regional organisers across the country in a bid to woo voters – in London on 4 September.

She said the Conservatives would “throw everything at us” after the new party chief is named.

Nigel Farage said he was appalled by the photographs of a dead three-year Syrian boy washed up on a beach in Turkey and said there was a risk of more deaths because Europe has said it plans to accept more refugees.

Mr Farage will be joined at the meeting by fellow Ukip party member, and MEP for the south east Diane James.

Last month, the Labour Party revealed it had barred 1,900 people from voting in its leadership election because they were deemed to be Green Party supporters who had infiltrated the membership.

Asked if he was a “Marmite” politician, Mr Farage said: “I don’t think that’s right”.

“There are some sort of soft Conservative Eurosceptics who think they should be in charge of the campaign and they can manage it all from a few streets in Westminster”.

“The problem we’ve got now if you look at the definition of the EU’s common asylum policy is it includes anyone fleeing from a war-torn country and it even includes people fleeing extreme poverty”.

“They have been trying since May to say ‘Nigel is divisive and Nigel is this and Nigel is that, ‘” he added. But I would suspect that the majority of people who are open minded, who’ve heard where we stand on this issue [immigration] will actually agree with us.

Mr Farage said he thought Mr Corbyn, a veteran left-wing MP who has stunned the political establishment with his rise from rank outsider to hot favourite in the Labour ballot, was similar to him because they both appealed to those outside the “Westminster village”. “We recognise that we won’t win this referendum unless we get significant numbers from the centre left of politics to vote to leave the European Union as well”.

“The first is this basic point about self government and democracy”.