Nigel Farage says he will stand as MEP for new political party if Article 50 is extended

Nigel Farage has said he will stand as an MEP for a new political party if Article 50 is extended.

The Brexit campaigner said that he believes Article 50 is “likely” to be extended and he will be looking for a “new vehicle.”

He quit UKIP last year over the party’s “obsession” with Islam and the hiring of Tommy Robinson as an advisor.

Mr Farage told Sky News that he will stand again for the European Parliament should Article 50 be extended.

He added that his current political party membership was a “work in progress” and added that there “are lots of parties out there that one could pick up and use right now.”

On Thursday, he spoke at a Leave Means Leave rally and told the audience: “When I’ve talked in the past about being worried that they may force us into a second referendum.

“I don’t want it any more than you do but I am saying to you we have to face reality in the face.

“Don’t think the other side aren’t organised, don’t think the other side aren’t prepared, don’t think they haven’t raised the money, don’t think they haven’t got the teams in place, they have.”

He was joined by Iain Duncan-Smith, MP Esther McVey and Hotelier Rocco Forte.

The audience at the Leave Means Leave rally were fired up and heckling throughout the nights speeches.

Mr Duncan-Smith said Britain's "greatness" lies in the post-Brexit future.

He added: "I love this country dearly, I love it with all my heart.

"I love people whether they're Remainers or Leavers, I don't care.

"But I know one thing, this country's greatness lies ahead of it and we have an opportunity and a duty to deliver it.

"I pledge to you tonight, I will not sleep, I will not rest, I will not wake to find a Britain that is otherwise than independent and free once again."

He branded the EU a "political project that we have never fully been told the truth about" and described anti-Brexit arguments as "a load of rubbish".

Mr Duncan-Smith shared an anecdote from his time as work and pensions secretary during a visit to Berlin, when he said to German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, "just like the rest of you I've sat here for an hour and I've now lost the will to live".

But afterwards he was told his joke had translated in French to him being "terminally ill" rather than "losing the will to live".

And Ms McVey said she asked the cabinet to vote on Mrs May's deal before it was taken to the commons as she could not "put her name on it" and there were "dissenting voices" in the cabinet against it.

She said the decision was down to the Prime Minister whether to have a vote but she was "shouted down and told we were not going to do it".

Ms McVey said she and her fellow Brexit MPs "are fighting hard, fighting hard for you, and will not rest as a minority in parliament until you get what you voted for".

Additional reporting by PA.