Nigel Farage has announced he will be taking over as leader of the newly-founded Brexit Party.
The pint-swigging ex-UKIP leader declared today: "I will take over as the leader of the Brexit Party and I will lead this party into the European elections."
It comes after the party's leader, Catherine Blaiklock, Leader of Nigel Farage's Brexit party quits over anti-Islam messages and retweets of far-right figures on social media.
It is not thought there has been a vote or election to pick Mr Farage as leader, as the party does not yet have a formal infrastructure.
Sources stressed Mr Farage was not saying he is the party's leader yet and was talking about the coming months.
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When asked if he would stand again in any EU elections for the new party, Mr Farage told the BBC: "Absolutely I will.
"The Brexit Party was set up a few weeks ago, it's registered with the Electoral Commission, it is at the moment a virtual party - it's a website - we haven't even launched."
Pressed on the resignation of the previous leader, Catherine Blaiklock, over racist tweets, he said the messages were "horrible... angry, intolerant stuff".
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He added: "She set the thing up, she was never intended to be the long-term leader, she was there as an interim...
"We've discovered some intolerant, angry things.
"I knew she had strong opinions but I was unaware of this.
"Let's be clear, I will take over as the leader of the Brexit Party and I will lead this party into the European elections.
"And we will put out a candidates list of people from right across the political spectrum, left, centre and right."
Mr Farage also refused to take back his claim that Brexit voters should "fight back" despite Theresa May warning of a rise in far-right threats to MPs.
"We jolly well should fight!" he said.
But he added: "We want peaceful protest. We will not condone direct action or violence of any kind at all."
Mr Farage also came up with an eyebrow-raising excuse for the small number of people on his Brexit march - images of which were mocked over the last week.
Asked how many people will turn up to the culmination he said: "In spirit I should think about 20million now, something like that."
He added: "It doesn't really matter does it? It's the symbolism of it that matters."
