Farage in plea to Johnson: ‘Don’t split the Brexit Party vote –

THE Brexit Party is the only party with a chance of toppling Labour in its south Wales heartland, Nigel Farage said yesterday.

The Brexit Party leader told supporters in Pontypool his party could beat Labour in the General Election if Boris Johnson reverses his decision not to enter into a “Leave” pact for the poll.

Mr Farage said in a speech traditional Labour voters who also voted to leave the EU would be choosing to scrap Brexit if they supported Jeremy Corbyn’s party on December 12.

Mr Farage said: “There were five million people that voted Brexit, then voted Labour in the 2017 General Election.

“Here in south Wales so many constituencies voted leave and now have a Remainer MP. The choice Mr Corbyn wants to give us is Remain versus a new form of Remain. Labour will crush the result of that referendum.”

Mr Farage, who was joined by Brexit Party MEPs Nathan Gill and Ann Widdecombe and Welsh Assembly member Mark Reckless, warned Mr Johnson that the Tories stood no choice of beating Labour in south Wales constituencies like Torfaen, and urged him not to split the Brexit vote. Mr Farage said: “In Torfaen and other constituencies in south Wales the Conservatives haven’t won for 100 years. And they are not going to win here on December 12. There is no chance of them winning.

“So I would make this urgent plea to Boris Johnson and others: don’t split the Brexit Party vote here in south Wales, we are the challengers to the Labour Party. We will beat Labour in many of these constituencies.”