Author and Mail on Sunday Columnist Peter Hitchens and Nigel Farage had a heated exchange over their assessment of Britain’s sovereignty after Brexit. The former leader of the Brexit Party campaigned for years for the UK to be fully independent of the European Union, and insisted the UK is now a fully sovereign nation. Mr Hitchens however hit back suggesting the prominence of emerging powers such as China will leave Britain depending on countries outside of the EU.
On GB News, Mr Farage asked: “Brexit, where we are today is not perfect with Northern Ireland with fisheries, but we do actually to a large degree have got back the ability to run our lives now.”
Mr Hitchens said: “I completely disagree.
“I didn’t take part in the referendum campaign. I didn’t vote in the referendum.
“I thought that we should have taken the Norway option.
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“I thought that the referendum was designed to save the Conservative Party, rather than the country.
Mr Farage chipped in: “But we could have gone to the Norway option once we had the vote?”
Mr Hitchens then said: “We didn’t because the campaign to leave the European Union, which was originally a campaign of people who loved this country and wanted to retain and restore this institution.
“And this was taken by a bunch of piratical free traders who want nothing of that kind.
“So you didn’t vote for Brexit didn’t participate in the referendum, do you ever vote for anybody anymore?”
Mr Hitchens replied: “I haven’t for a long time no because I decided that the important thing, the most important task for anybody seriously concerned with the country was the destruction of the conservative party, which is the great block which stands across the actual path of any kind of conservative reform.“And doing all the things that really need to be done– the moral social family things, the educational things.“The criminal justice things which need to be done, which the Tory Party is the many, many years not been interested in.”