“It's the last thing I want to see. It's not a game of the best of three.”

— Nigel Farage

Interviewed by the Mirror after the EU referendum result http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-says-brexit-referendum-8283500, commenting on the petition to the UK Parliament for a second referendum https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215 (25 June 2016)
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