has vowed to deliver the Brexit 17.9million people voted for if he becomes Prime Minister.
The Reform UK leader said the country needs a government that believes in being outside the EU so its full potential can truly be unleashed.
His rallying cry comes on the fifth anniversary of Britain’s historic departure from the .
In a video message to Daily Express readers to mark the occasion Mr Farage said has not yet been delivered properly.
“It’s not been delivered and if I sat here five years ago I’d have said to you in five years’ time I’d be retired, I’d be out, I’d have done my bit, my 27 years of campaigning finally paid off,” he said.
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Nigel Farage speaks to the Express to mark the fifth anniversary of Brexit (Image: Daily Express)
“But I’m back and I’m back because we now need people in charge to deliver the we voted for who actually believe in it.”
Mr Farage uses his tub-thumping message to take a swipe at his political rivals for failing to make the most of our freedoms.
“We know Labour were opposed, Starmer wanted a second referendum, Liberal Democrats the same,” he said.
“But I frankly look now at , Kemi Badenoch, all of these people, I don’t think they ever really believed in it.
“I think they used it as a vehicle to win a general election, which I helped them do. They never really believed in it.
“They always kind of saw it I think a bit more as damage limitation rather than an opportunity.
“I’m here to say I’m disappointed, you watching this will be disappointed, we can do so much better and we’re the guys to do it.”
Boris Johnson (Image: Getty Images)
Support for Reform UK is soaring with an exclusive Daily Express Whitestone Insight poll this week showing the party could become the official opposition with 118 seats after the next general election.
A poll by Find Out Now puts the party on 27% and predicts it will get 212 seats at the next election, which is expected in four years time.
But Mr Farage and his party have set their sights on government and are confident they will be victorious in 2029.
He says the “first thing” to make the most of is to secure a trade deal with America.
The Brexiteer said the UK needs to have a “modern 21st century economy” which can only be achieved by a “total transformation of energy policy”.
“We must have no more population growth through immigration – as simple as that,” he added. “If we do those things we’ll have at least delivered what people wanted.”
Mr Farage there have been some “disappointments” which need fixing.
Brexiteers sing patriotic songs as they celebrate the moment the UK leaves EU (Image: Getty Images)
“Most people voting did so because they saw the population explosion in Britain that was happening and they wanted to get control of the borders,” he said.
“Since we left we’ve had 130,000 young men cross the English Channel in small boats, net migration reaching one million in 2023 and a lot of people, myself included, see that as a total betrayal of what the vote was.”
Mr Farage said more also needs to be done to help British businesses.
“Five and a half million men and women out there running small businesses, acting as self-employed, the expectation was life would get easier, it hasn’t.
“Everything from financial services through to fisheries is probably more difficult than it was.
“So I don’t for a minute believe was the wrong thing to do, absolutely not.
“When I look at the state that Europe’s in at the moment, they’re literally disagreeing on everything and if you think our economy is bad have a look across the Channel.”
Britain finally left the EU on January 31, 2020. It marked a huge victory for this newspaper, following a tireless crusade to free Britain from the shackles of Brussels.
Heaping praise on the Daily Express and our readers, Mr Farage highlighted our “historic” front page in 2010 demanding Britain should quit the EU.
“It was mocked, the Express was mocked, by the rest of Fleet Street, mocked by the , ITV, Sky. But along with me you guys were ahead of the curve.
“And I think Express readers want the same as what I want, they want what we voted for, not what we’ve been given.”
There have been some successes because of , Mr Farage highlights, including the UK “standing taller” in the world.
He cites the Aukus nuclear submarine tie-up with Australia and the USA as a deal “we could never have done as an EU member”.
And he said Britain was able to take a “very big lead” on while EU nations were squabbling over their response.
Britain’s success in getting a vaccine out more quickly than any other country during the pandemic was made possible because of , he said.