Nigel Farage

Since then, there have been calls to re-empower the "gatekeepers", which is a polite way of saying that the unwashed masses should be kept as far away from political decision-making as possible.

Yet this liberal impulse reflects a misreading of recent history: it was elites, not the masses, who enabled Brexit and Trump.

The result, which horrified the main parties, is an astonishing coup for Farage, and shows that many voters in the UK are no longer interested in "fence-sitting" parties and want explicit options when it comes to the EU.

The six-week-old British Nigel Farage's Brexit's party blunted all the traditional parties in Britain into the European Parliament elections with 31% of the vote, the Daily Mail quoted by Channel 3.

At the same time, the Labor Party and the Conservatives suffered great losses.

Europe's mainstream political parties took a hit in elections on May 26 but held off a strong surge by the populist right of Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini and Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage has quit UKIP, saying the party's leader Gerard Batten seems to be obsessed with Islam and ex-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson, reports BBC. 

Speaking on LBC radio, the former leader of the Eurosceptic party said he made the decision with a "heavy heart".

Saturday's breathtaking demonstration for a People's Vote may yet prove a turning point, the beginning of the end of Brexit. It was, in any case, a great democratic moment.

Steve Bannon, the controversial former chief advisor of US President Donald Trump, has announced plans to establish a foundation in Europe to spark a populist right-wing revolt.

Bannon told The Daily Beast that the foundation, called The Movement, will rival George Soros' Open Society Foundation, which has given away billions of euros to largely liberal causes.

British Independence Party UKIP and its anti-European allies in Brussels have lost access to their largest source of European campaign funding after a series of scandals over alleged misappropriation, the Financial Times reported.

British Prime Minister Theresa May could be under pressure to give extreme Eurosceptic Nigel Farage a key role in Brexit negotiations if she strikes an alliance deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), according to new reports.