The Brexit Party made significant inroads in Merseyside’s EU elections vote.
Three of the eight European Parliament seats available across the North West in Sunday’s results were taken up by the group newly set up by Nigel Farage.
In Liverpool, the Brexit Party won an 18.37 per cent share of the vote to finish second in polling behind Labour’s majority of 40.28% for the local area.
However its biggest gains came in the fellow Remain-voting constituency of Wirral, where it took 30 per cent and moved some 7,021 vote clear of Labour.
Sefton, another pro-EU area, also backed the Brexit Party as did St Helens, Warrington but Labour came out on top in Leave-supporting Knowsley.
Notorious anti-Islamic extremist Tommy Robinson was humiliated by the results outcome by taking a pitiful 2.2 per cent of the North West’s overall vote.
Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – left long before the official count was declared in Manchester, where his name was jeered, booed and laughed at.
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