‘Brexit has failed’: Nigel Farage is the new poster boy for Remainer campaign

LONDON — If you didn’t know about Nigel Farage’s complaint that Brexit has failed, you will do soon.

A new national ad campaign in the U.K. will highlight the remark from the leading Eurosceptic, who told the BBC’s Newsnight program earlier May that Britain has not benefited economically from leaving the bloc.

“Brexit has failed,” the former Brexit Party leader declared at the time. “We’ve not delivered on Brexit and the Tories have let us down very, very badly.”

Those words are now set to adorn billboards across the U.K.

Led By Donkeys, an anti-Brexit campaign group also responsible for a recent sting against several Conservative MPs, announced Wednesday that they have plastered Farage’s remarks at sites across the U.K., from Aberdeen to Yeovil.

150 posters in total — each with a picture of Farage — have been placed in towns and cities across Britain.

The publicity push comes amid continued woes for the U.K. economy, which has struggled to rebound following the triple shocks of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the turbulence of Britain’s exit from the EU. The government’s economic watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, has pointed the finger at Brexit for a hit to U.K. trade.

Farage, who now hosts a show on the U.K. channel GB News, dropped his latest hint at a political comeback last week, telling the Daily Telegraph he was frustrated at the government’s handling of both Brexit and migration.