Appearing on Sky’s Sophy Ridge Show, Blair said: ‘What I’m saying is, the important thing is to vote. So I do come across a lot of Labour people who simply can’t vote for Labour at the moment. In which case I say to them “don’t stay at home, go and vote for one of the avowedly Remain parties”. In the end, when you look at the situation, you’re going to have this fundamental division in the country. Farage said that if the Brexit Party is successful in the European Parliament elections, he will ask for the party’s MEPs to become part of the government’s EU negotiating team.