UK's Farage says won't contest Tory-held seats at election

NSTworld: “The BrexitParty will not contest the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the last election.” - NigelFarage Brexit

Farage, a leading force behind the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union, was under pressure from within his own party to drop plans to field candidates across Britain to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.

The former leader of the UK Independence Party had earlier promised to field 600 candidates in the December 12 election, unless Johnson agreed to abandon the exit terms he has agreed with Brussels.But the prime minister refused and Farage has now given in, noting wryly: “In a sense we now have a Leave alliance, it’s just that we’ve done it unilaterally.”

The main opposition Labour party has promised a second referendum on Brexit – a call backed by many smaller parties in the House of Commons. But Labour chairman Ian Lavery accused Farage and Johnson of cooking up an alliance that threatened to “sell out our country” and the state-run health service to US drugs firms.

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