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Nigel Farage says his Brexit Party will target Labor Leave seats rather than Tory ones – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk

Nigel Farage says his Brexit Party will target Labor Leave seats rather than Tory ones – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk


Nigel Faragelast night suggested that theBrexitParty will target Labor Leave seats – which could still cost the Tories an election win.

In an email to supporters yesterday, the leader said the party would have ‘a big challenge on our hands to clear out the Remainer Parliament and win a majority for Brexit ‘.

It signals that the party will not field candidates against Tory Eurosceptics.

In an email to supporters yesterday, Nigel Farage – seen in Brussels on October 22 – said the party would have ‘a big challenge on our hands to clear out the Remainer Parliament and win a majority for Brexit’

However, even targeting Labor Leave seats could deny Mr Johnson a majority – as those are the seats he is hoping to win to offset Possible losses to the SNP and Lib Dems.

It came as a major row engulfed the Brexit party over whether or not to stand in hundreds of seats across the country.

Mr Farage previously said that the party would contest every seat, and the party has pulled together more than 600 candidates.

But the party has been split about what to do since the Tories rejected an electoral pact.

The party’s MEP John Longworth has urged it to concentrate its efforts on a smaller number of seats in Brexit and Labor-

And Arron Banks, founder of the Leave.EU campaign – which is credited helping to win the 2016 referendum – and a close confidant of Mr Farage, also urged the Brexit party not to run a full slate of candidates.

‘It’s not as simple as whether the Brexit party should stand down across the whole country… the national polls say one thing, but there is a different dynamic in each seat that has to be considered, ‘he told the FT.

‘If Nigel takes a tactical, pragmatic approach on where to run to help deliver Brexit he’ll be rewarded by voters,’ he said.

Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Flash Music Theater in London on October 30

The Mail revealed yesterday that chairman Richard Tice is receiving begging texts from Brexiteer Tory MPs calling for the Brexit Party to stand aside in their seats.

Prospective B rexit party candidates are still waiting to hear whether they are standing in the vote, expected to be on December 12.

A message to all candidates on Thursday morning said: ‘Important. Please all go DARK on social media. DO NOT respond to any questions about where we [are] standing, what the strategy or plan is from now on. Things will be made clear… very soon, ‘according to the FT.

It is even unclear whether Mr Farage himself will stand, despite reports that he will contest the Essex seat of Thurrock.

The party will reveal at a launch event on Friday where it will stand candidates.

Yesterday, arch- Eurosceptic Tory MP Steve Baker said the Conservatives should reject a pact with the Brexit Party.

The chair of the Eurosceptic European Research Group previously urged cooperation with the party, but now says the

Mr Baker said that Mr Johnson’s deal means it should form a pact with the Brexit Party, which supports a no-deal exit from the EU, he said .

Yesterday, arch-Eurosceptic Tory MP Steve Baker – seen on October 28 – said the Conservatives should reject a pact with the Brexit Party

‘A pre-Brexit pact with the Brexit Party won’t h appen all the time Mr Farage insists the Conservatives pursue no deal, which won’t happen, ‘Mr Baker told the New Statesman.

‘ Boris will have to win without any arrangement . ‘

The Tories fear that even that small number could rob Mr Johnson of a majority in the snap general election.

In September, Mr Baker warned that the Tories risked losing power altogether if they attempted to fight a pre-Brexit election without a pact.

‘If we have an election before we have left the European Union and the Brexit Party think that we’re heading in a direction which does not deliver our independence from the EU then they will stand candidates virtually everywhere and the result will be, as per Peterborough and in Wales, they will result in a Lib / Lab Remain coalition. We will lose Brexit, ‘he said.

The Prime Minister has always ruled out a pact with Mr Farage, which would be unacceptable to a majority of Conservative MPs.

Mr Johnson’s team described the former Ukip leader as ‘not a fit and proper person’ to govern.

Mr Johnson has managed to unite the Tory party behind his deal, something that always eluded his predecessor.

He also managed to win over the 28 ‘spartan’ members of the ERG who refused to vote for Theresa May’s deal three times.

Without a pact with the Tories, Mr Farage’s party will struggle to make an impact. It is more likely to split the Leave vote should it stand across the country.

Although the Brexit Party is trailing the Conservatives in the polls, Tory MPs fear that Mr Farage’s group could win enough votes to deny them victory in certain seats.

The Eurosceptic party has selected more than 600 candidates to contest every seat in Britain, though not Northern Ireland.

Mr Farage has also suggested that some could stand aside in a deal with the Conservatives to ensure as many seats went to Brexiteers as possible.

His party has repeatedly called for Mr Johnson to agree a non-aggression electoral pact in certain seats and said that they can be the Tories’ best friends or worst enemies.

The Brexit Party has spent weeks campaigning for the UK to leave the EU on October 31, but has kept a relatively low profile since Mr Johnson conceded that he would not meet his deadline.

A Brexit Party spokesman said: ‘We continue to wish to have the broadest collection of clean Brexiters – in line with the result of the 2016 referendum – in parliament as possible to ensure a clean Brexit. ‘

However, even targeting Labor Leave seats could deny Boris Johnson, seen yesterday, a majority

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