WE DON’T NEED YOU NIGEL
Boris dismisses demand for him to bin Brexit deal or lose ‘alliance’
THE Tories went to war with Nigel Farage last night after he threatened to ruin Boris Johnson’s election hopes.
Mr Farage warned yesterday that his Brexit Party will stand in every seat unless the Prime Minister scraps the withdrawal agreement he struck with Brussels.
He also said he would write to every British household accusing the Tories of a ‘sell-out’.
But the Prime Minister ruled out any pact and Michael Gove insisted that the Tories did not need Mr Farage’s help.
Mr Johnson told the BBC that voting for any other party than his was ‘tantamount to putting Jeremy Corbyn in’ Number 10.
As Eurosceptic Tory MPs said Mr Farage risked splitting the Leave vote:
A Daily Mail poll suggested the Tories are on course to make dramatic gains from Labour in northern seats;
Mr Gove hinted that the Conservative election manifesto will promise tax cuts;
Ministers were forced to defend Mr Johnson’s agreement with the EU after it was savaged by Donald Trump;
Tory Eurosceptic MPs told Mr Farage they would not be ‘bullied’ after he threatened to stand candidates against them;
Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn agreed to go head to head on November 19 in the first ever TV debate between two main party leaders;
it emerged that a Labour candidate in a key seat was once jailed for insider trading;
MPs have been warned by police not to campaign alone at night amid growing threats.
Mr Gove told the Mail: ‘The only way to get Brexit done is with a majority Conservative government. So i hope Nigel Farage and his friends will reflect and conclude that this is a deal that is worth getting behind.’
Asked if the Tories could win with or without Mr Farage’s support, he replied: ‘Yes.’
At the launch in Westminster yesterday of the Brexit Party’s General Election campaign, Mr Farage gave Mr Johnson two weeks to drop his withdrawal agreement. He said that if the PM did so they could ‘build a Leave alliance’ to avoid competing in individual constituencies.
Mr Farage said: ‘He is trying to sell a secondhand car. He has polished up the bonnet but actually underneath nothing has changed – this is Mrs May’s appalling surrender treaty.
‘if he decides he can go on selling this as Brexit then good luck to him, because by the time December 12 comes along, the country will understand it is not Brexit.’
Explaining his idea of a ‘non-aggression pact’, Mr Farage said: ‘There are seats in which we would not stand and seats in which the Conservatives would not stand. in particular, old Labour seats that have never ever been Conservative, never ever will be Conservative, where there were Leave majorities in the referendum but they’re represented by remain MPs.’
Tory Eurosceptics last night told Mr Farage they would not be ‘bullied’ by him.
Steve Baker, of the European research Group, said: ‘i am no more willing to be bullied by Nigel Farage than anyone else into acting against my best understanding of the national interest.’
‘There are seats in which we would not stand’