Johnson sets out stall as Brexit Party to contest Labour seats

Boris Johnson has insisted voting Conservative is the “only way” to get Brexit done after Nigel Farage refused to bow down to pressure to pull his party’s candidates from marginal seats.

The prime minister said a vote for “any other party” would be a vote for a coalition between Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP’S Nicola Sturgeon, urging voters to instead grant him a majority at the December 12 poll.

Mr Johnson said the Tories were committed to a One Nation programme, despite ex-conservative Cabinet minister David Gauke – a key advocate of such a philosophy – suggesting those opposed to a no-deal “lend” their votes to the Liberal Democrats.

In his first major speech of the election campaign, Mr Johnson told workers at an electric vehicle factory in the West Midlands that Brexit had

“There is only one way to ensure that we get Brexit done. BORIS JOHNSON

been “paralysing politics” for three and a half years.

The PM stopped short of urging Brexit Party leader Mr Farage to withdraw his candidates from Torylabour marginal seats.

Earlier yesterday, Mr Farage confirmed he would field candidates in every Labour-held seat. “We’re going to stand against every single one of them,” he said at a boxing club in Ilford, Essex

Mr Johnson said: “I just want to say about Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party, it is always a very difficult thing for any party leader to withdraw candidates from an election and I understand that.

“But all I can say...for the avoidance of doubt, to repeat my central message, there is only one way to ensure that we get Brexit done – get this thing finished, get us out, do a fantastic free-trade deal – and that is to vote for us and the Conservatives.”