![Polling reported by The Telegraph indicates that 63 per cent of Conservative voters and 79 per cent of Brexit Party voters back Farage’s plan, which has also received the endorsement of senior Tory Brexiteers such as European Research Group (ERG) leader Steve Baker, and Jacob Rees-Mogg — whose sister Annunziata is a Brexit Party MEP — recently indicated that Brexiteers “owe [Farage] a great debt”.](https://jacksnewswatch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/boris-johnson_43.png)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has refused Nigel Farage’s offer of an electoral non-aggression pact between the Tories and the Brexit Party, despite backing from an overwhelming majority of both Tory and Brexit Party voters.
Johnson insisted that “Of course” the Tories would be contesting every available seat in any General Election — including, presumably, those seats where they stand next to no chance of winning, but where the Brexit Party could break through without the Tories splitting the Leave vote — and that his party would be running “as Conservatives and not in an alliance or a pact, or a coupon deal”.
“I can’t understand why Boris does not want to win a big Brexit majority and smash the Remain parties,” Farage tweeted in response to the statement by the prime minister.
“Perhaps he doesn’t want a clean break Brexit and prefers Mrs May’s sell-out. That would be a total disaster,” he added.
Speaking to Breitbart London before the prime minister made his intervention, Mr Farage said it would be foolhardy of Mr Johnson to “close the door” to an agreement so early, as come the time of an actual vote with the electoral realities staring him in the face, he might find he actually needs it.
Mr Farage told Breitbart London: “The refusal does not play to Boris Johnson’s base. The base overwhelmingly wants an accommodation of some kind, there’s no question about that… [Rejecting a Brexit pact] would be an irrational thing to do.
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