BRITAIN is dying and should be left to expire to make way for the “three free nations” of England, Wales and Scotland, the new Plaid Cymru leader has told SNP conference.

Adam Price, who took over the helm of the Welsh Nationalists ten days ago, said Brexit had laid bare the failures of the British establishment and political system in “excruciating detail”.

Giving the fraternal address in Glasgow, he told delegates: “The old Britain is dying. Let it die.

“Our project is not to break up but to remake this island as a home for three free nations, not the palace and the property of one.”

Mr Price said Plaid would work with the SNP at Westminster to help deliver a People’s Vote on Brexit, which he said was highly likely as no Brexit plan had a Commons majority.

Plaid has four MPs to add to the 35 Nicola Sturgeon put behind a People’s Vote on Sunday.

Speaking to the Herald later, Mr Price said: “As Westminster descends sadly into daily chaos the role of Plaid and the SNP working together is going to be increasingly critical.

“The UK government’s failure to deliver a practical way forward means a People’s Vote is increasingly likely, and the only means of unlocking the logjam.

“I can’t at this point in time see any other way forward.”

He said Brexiters now faced a taste of their own medicine as public distrust in politics - “the emotional bedrock of much of the Brexit vote”  - attached itself to them.

“That sense that the British political ruling class can be classed as liars and charlatans, that remains the case for many people, but now it’s the Brexitees who are in the dock.

“At some level what has been exposed is that politics has collapsed into an absurd parlour game which has real consequences in people’s lives and that’s filtered down.”

He said Remain was too “technocratic” in 2016, but now the passion was on the part of the Remainers, as people felt they had been deceived by people playing political games.

“I think at the very least it would be a toss-up. Anything could happen, and quite conceivably the public reversing their position, as they are entitled to do. That’s the nature of a democracy, that’s the beauty of it. The people reserve the right to change their minds.”