Four Brexit Party MEPs have dramatically resigned their party whip today in order to back the Conservative Party at the General Election. The quartet are: Annunziata Rees-Mogg (East Midlands) John Longworth (Yorkshire & Humber) Lucy Harris (Yorkshire & Humber) Lance Forman (London) They are recommending that if voters want to get Brexit done, they need to vote Conservative, with Annunziata Rees-Mogg explaining: “We need a strong Leave-supporting government to deliver the Brexit 17.4million voted for. The Conservatives are the only option for Brexit supporters and democrats alike.” Below is the text of the letter they have jointly sent to party leader Nigel Farage: “We write to inform you that we are today resigning The Brexit Party whip in order that we may be free to speak our minds with respect to the United Kingdom leaving the EU. “Your efforts, over the years, have been instrumental both in obtaining a referendum and, more recently, the establishment and the electoral success of The Brexit Party, in ensuring there was a change of PM: two important moments in history and in the Brexit story. “It is unfortunate that as the race reaches the final straight, our views on how best to achieve leaving the EU have diverged. “As we have tried to suggest to you over the past few months, we believe The Brexit Party has taken a wrong turn and is itself putting Brexit in jeopardy. We believe the current Brexit Party strategy risks the UK remaining in the European Union, and this is not something we feel able to support. “We will continue to bend every sinew to ensure Brexit is delivered. There is a way yet to run but to coin a phrase, hopefully we are at the end of the beginning, if not the beginning of the end.”