fraser. good morning, welcome to brussels. boats are still being counted here at the european parliament. it very much feels like the morning after that i before, is a bleary eyes. i can see journalists asleep at the desks, surrounded by the detritus of half eaten food, bottles of water and quite a lot of coffee. no question what a story of the night was, the shift across the continent to the right. the hard right performing well in austria, the netherlands, germany. not so well in poland and slovakia. and, of course, the headline news overnight is the fact that president macron has called that snap election in france, where the national rally took 32% of the vote, compared to his party s 14%. that is a record performance for the national rally. it left the president, in his view, with no option but to dissolve parliament and call a snap election. translation: the rise - of nationalists and demagogues is a dangerfor our nation, but also for europe. i say this even though we h
As you said, we were set up back in the early 90s to Get Britain Out of the European Union. With the referendum id say we have won the war, what weve got to do now is win the peace. The Prime Minister will only start at the negotiations with the European Union later injune and ukip has to be on the pitch because if ukip isnt on the pitch, then theres no real impetus for the Prime Minister not to backslide and i believe, i worry, that she may backslide with fisheries, or maybe there will be a deal on the divorce bill, or maybe there will be a deal on freedom of movement. What we need is to ensure that ukip is there so that we get the brexit that we voted for onjune the 23rd. But when you launched your manifesto last week, your main focus wasnt on europe. It was on terrorism and extremism. It almost looks like you are flailing around now, trying to stay relevant, arent you . Well, no, not at all. What we have done is we have led on the agenda of islamic terrorism and we launched our Inte
As you said, we were set up back in the early 90s to Get Britain Out of the European Union. With the referendum id say we have won the war, what weve got to do now is win the peace. The Prime Minister will only start at the negotiations with the European Union later injune and ukip has to be on the pitch because if ukip isnt on the pitch, then theres no real impetus for the Prime Minister not to backslide and i believe, i worry, that she may backslide with fisheries, or maybe there will be a deal on the divorce bill, or maybe there will be a deal on freedom of movement. What we need is to ensure that ukip is there so that we get the brexit that we voted for onjune the 23rd. But when you launched your manifesto last week, your main focus wasnt on europe. It was on terrorism and extremism. It almost looks like you are flailing around now, trying to stay relevant, arent you . Well, no, not at all. What we have done is we have led on the agenda of islamic terrorism and we launched our Inte
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