‘It’s the END of Farage’s giant ego trip’ Lord Mandelson lashes out at Brexit Party leader

Following the EU Parliament’s ratification of Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement, the UK is finally due to leave the union at the end of today. Whilst Brexiteers like Nigel Farage celebrated the historic moment, Lord Peter Mandelson, a huge second referendum supporter, still praised the union for giving the UK “unprecedented levels of prosperity and security”. The Labour peer also accused the Brexit Party leader’s lengthy campaign to leave the EU of being a “giant ego trip” all along.

He said: “Today is not the end of Brexit.

“It may be the end of Nigel Farage’s giant ego trip, but it’s only the end of the beginning on Brexit.

“We have huge decisions that have now got to be taken about how we’re going to forge a relationship with the European Union

“For over half a century, they’ve given us unprecedented levels of prosperity and security.”

Lord Mandelson continued: “It’s helped us influence what happens in the rest of the world.

“It’s helped us balance our very strong relationship with the United States.

“Now we’ve got to decide where we go from here.”

Despite his ardent support for the EU, the former MP admitted that now was the time to be more “optimistic” about the future.

He told ITV: “I’m a patriot, I want the best for the country.

“But we will have to make some pretty big choices.

“Those choices are now owned, indecently, entirely by Boris Johnson.”

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He continued: “He won his huge majority at the general election, thanks in no small measure to Jeremy Corbyn.

“He’s now got to decide from a UK point of view what we’re going to do and how we’re going to conduct this negotiation with the European Union.

“We can either go our own way and enjoy our ‘economic freedom’ as Mr Johnson calls it, but that will be at the expense of trade and jobs and investment in our country.

“Or we can choose, on the other hand, to negotiate a closer relationship with the European Union that will keep barriers to a minimum.

“That will help industry and jobs and investment in the country, but we can only have that if we agree to stick by EU market rules and standards.”

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