Nigel farage rejects jacob rees-mogg’s offer to join the tories

But a horrified Mr Farage, who quit Ukip in December, said he would never become a member of a party led by Theresa May and accused the Conservatives of failing to keep their promises. Asked

if he would consider becoming a Tory, he said: "Good God, no." "I don't support much of what they stand for. They make a series of promises that they never deliver on.

And anyway, the current leadership wouldn't have me and, frankly, I couldn't even contemplate joining a party that led was by Mrs May. "It's very sweet of Jacob but at

the moment it does not look like a very realistic possibility." Mr Farage said this weekend that he was ready to return to frontline politics and was backing a new political force

called Brexit Party. He said he will "re-enter the fray" if a snap general election is called or Britain's EU exit is delayed and leads to voters being given a say in the next

European Parliament poll. Mr Farage severed his ties with Ukip over leader Gerard Batten's "obsession" with Islam and links to Tommy Robinson. He was one of a number of

senior figures in the party to quit over its dramatic shift in direction including ex-economic spokesman Patrick O'Flynn, formerly of this parish. Mr Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the

European Research Group of Leave supporting Conservatives, told LBC radio: "If the Conservative Party could reunite with the reasonable elements of Ukip that would be good news and

Nigel would be part of that." He added: "It may be a little bit early, though personally I hold Nigel in the highest regard and think he was one of the people who was instrumental

in delivering Brexit."