HARTLEPOOL, England - Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the most significant boost of the British election campaign to date when Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he would not contest 317 seats where the Conservative Party won in 2017.
“The Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the last election,” Farage said. A week ago, he had promised to field 600 candidates unless Johnson went for a “no-deal” Brexit. But in what amounts to a non-aggression pledge and an endorsement of sorts from the man cast by supporters as the godfather of Brexit, Farage spared Johnson the prospect of a right-wing challenge in almost half the 650 constituencies.
Johnson welcomed Farage’s move, which rivals said made the Conservatives in effect an ally of Farage’s hard-Brexit party. After weeks of complaining about Johnson’s Brexit deal, he reversed course on Monday, saying that a video showing Johnson pledging not to extend the post-Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020 had changed his mind.
It was a rare compromise for a man who has made a career out of forcing the hand of Conservative prime ministers.
Was it a comb?
Disgusting sell outs.
How is that a Xmas present, what sort of brainless fools are all the media who spin this crap. Farage is just too gutless to stand, this is terrible for the democratic process.
Pair of fuckfaces
No wonder! They suit each other.
Bye bye nhs the Americans are coming
FARAGE sold his soul and we always knew TORIES and right wing brexiters are the same.
Yes the booby prize.
He has lined his own pockets at the party expense all Brexit party candid's should stand in the election the public needs a choice
Really?
Cowardly decision.
I find whenever the mainstream press write on the subject of Brexit, it's because remain are perceived to have won. This is not a Brexit election. It's simply about partisan politics: Tories, Labour, SNP, Greens, Plaid Cymru etc., None of the above represent my views so no ballot
U turn Nigel.on a plane to the US
Yet SKy and BBC pour cold water on it, I would never have imagined that!,,
It’s not a gift. Many of those seatsThe Tories won are very marginal anyway, and the seats the brexit party will now contest are ones the Tories were looking to win back but now might not. I expected Reuters to be more on the ball of this stuff.
Had to happen - a split Brexit vote was not on the agenda really.
Courageous and very dignified gesture from our leader to the Prime Minister, I only hope he respects this move.
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