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Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party's campaign launch today
NIGEL FARAGE today urged PM Boris Johnson to drop his EU withdrawal agreement and form a “Leave alliance” with the Brexit Party, saying he would otherwise field a candidate to contest every seat in Britain, which could split the pro-Brexit vote.
But No 10 poured cold water on the idea this evening.
The Brexit Party leader, during the launch of his snap general election campaign today, said that the Prime Minister’s plans for leaving the EU did not represent a true withdrawal and that Britain should leave on World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms.
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL