Nigel Farage was dealt a brutal put down as his taunt about independence backfired spectacularly during last night's ITV debate.
The Brexit Party leader was trying to trumpet the advantages of leaving the EU and of the UK being "independent" in an election debate on ITV with representatives from seven parties.
Farage referred to the Scottish National Party's leader Nicola Sturgeon saying of Brexit : “It’s going to give us independence. I thought you liked independence!”
But Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary, Richard Burgon, hit back saying: “There’s nothing independent about taking instructions on LBC when Donald Trump phones up.
"Nothing independent about that whatsoever."
The SNP leader snapped back saying: “If Scotland was independent, we wouldn’t be getting dragged out of the European Union against our will.”
Mr Burgon clashed with a number of the other panelists on Brexit during the heated 7-way election debate.
Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price referred to Labour hero Tony Benn who drew the distinction between weathervane politicians and signpost politicians.
“What we’ve got in the Labour Party now are weather vane politicians… where’s the leadership in that? We’ve been crying out for that in this country.”
Burgon hit back: "Adam is playing the Tory game by trying to blame Labour for the Tory-created Brexit crisis... We need less of the finger pointing ranting and electioneering and we need to say let the people have the final say."
Richard Burgon refused to say how he would vote in a second Brexit referendum, and on the prospect of a Labour minority government reaching an agreement with the SNP , he said: "There is no backroom deals, frontroom deals, or any other kind of deals with the SNP or anyone else.
"We're going for, and I believe we can and will get, a majority Labour government."
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also attacked Labour's Brexit policy which is to negotiate a new deal and then hold a vote on the deal or Remain.
She said: “By taking the position he is Jeremy Corbyn shows he’s a bystander not a leader.”
Rishi Sunak sought to draw a line between him and Nigel Farage, telling the audience: "The difference between Nigel and me is that only my party - the Conservative Party - can actually deliver Brexit.
"A vote for anybody else on this stage ... is just going to mean Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 and that's going to mean no Brexit and years more delay, division and deadlock."
Mr Farage said leaving the EU means "we do not have the European Court of Justice ruling over our country", and that the "problem with the deal on the table is that it would", adding: "That needs to be amended."
