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Nigel Farage today bowed to massive pressure by declaring he will not split the Eurosceptic vote at the election.  The Brexit Party leader made the dramatic announcement at an event in the target seat of Hartlepool to set out his approach to the looming poll. He said many people were suffering from 'Brexhaustion' and he had initially concluded it was 'not Brexit'.   But he insisted that he had been swayed by Mr Johnson's pledge last night that the transition period will not be extended beyond the end of 2020, and he wants a 'Super Canada Plus' trade deal.  'That sounds a bit more like the Brexit we voted for,' Mr Farage said. 'Last night I weighed up Boris's promises and is he going to stick to them against the threat... that we let in a lot of Remainer Lib Dem MPs. 'The Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats the Conservative Party won at the 2017 election.'   The Brexit Party's chairman Richard Tice is standing as a candidate in the seat. But the … [Read more...] about Nigel Farage says the Brexit Party will NOT fight 600 seats at election as he bows to massive pressure not to split the Eurosceptic vote and let Labour in

Nigel Farage has stood down more than 300 Brexit Party candidates in seats won by the Conservatives in the 2017 election.Mr Farage said his party had made the decision based on polling which indicated standing in seats in London, the South and the South West may split the vote of pro-Brexit candidates and allow pro-Remain candidates to win.Therefore the Brexit Party won't contest any of the 317 seats won by the Conservatives in the last general election.However, the party will still stand in all of the seats held by Labour - including key marginals the Tories are hoping to take.The decision was welcomed by the Conservatives, though Boris Johnson denied he had called Mr Farage to strike a deal. Labour's Jeremy Corbyn called it a "Trump alliance". Advertisement Mr Johnson said his party welcomed the "recognition that another gridlocked hung parliament is the greatest threat to getting Brexit done".He added: "If we have another hung parliament it would lead to two more chaotic … [Read more...] about General election: Boris Johnson welcomes Nigel Farage’s decision not to stand in seats won by Tories in 2017

Nigel Farage is facing calls from Brexit supporters to stand down further candidates to help Boris Johnson after he made a dramatic public U-turn by agreeing to withdraw his party from all Conservative-held seats. The Brexit party leader claimed he had changed his mind about fielding candidates in 317 seats held by the Tories after Johnson released a video pledging to take Britain out of the EU by 2020 and to pursue a Canada-style trade deal. The abrupt nature of Farage’s reversal prompted claims from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP that he and Johnson had struck a secret pact in favour of a hard Brexit, which both sides denied. Farage admitted he had been offered a peerage by the Tories as recently as last Friday but claimed he had turned this down. Senior Tories are now pressing behind the scenes for Farage to make further concessions and stand back in Labour-held target seats, after Farage conceded that the presence of his party in those contests could lead to a hung … [Read more...] about Nigel Farage urged to stand aside in Tory target seats after climbdown

The government is facing the prospect of being sued by campaigners for EU citizens in the UK and British nationals abroad who were denied a vote in the European parliament elections. John Halford, a public law specialist at Bindmans, said this week’s electoral fiasco was something a democracy should not tolerate. “The right to vote is the foundation for all citizenship rights,” he said. “Last Thursday saw a large-scale, systematic, openly discriminatory denial of that right. The case we plan to bring will show that this is not something the law will tolerate and that there must be accountability and consequences.” Halford is working with the the3million group in the UK, which campaigns for the rights of EU citizens after Brexit, and also with British in Europe, which campaigns for Britons settled elsewhere in the bloc. A crowdfunding campaign was launched on Saturday to finance the legal case, which is being urgently explored in consultation with … [Read more...] about EU citizens denied vote in European elections to sue UK government

Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters have been camping outside Islamabad for over a week, waiting for an order from Islamic cleric Maulana Fazlur Rehman to march toward Prime Minister Imran Khan's residence in the Pakistani capital. Rehman, a powerful religious figure and head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) party, claims that Khan came to power through rigged elections. Rehman's party lost to Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) in the July 2018 general elections. The cleric is backed by Pakistan's major opposition parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), headed by former President Asif Ali Zardari and his son, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Rehman is the head of a powerful right-wing party that regularly contests elections and believes in parliamentary democracy. He was a member of the National Assembly (lower house of parliament) between 1988 and May 2018 and served as … [Read more...] about Fazlur Rehman: Pakistani cleric urges military to abandon Imran Khan