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Trump-ally Nigel Farage offers UK PM Boris Johnson a Brexit election alliance
Published in Amwal Al Ghad on 02 - 11 - 2019

The leader of the U.K. Brexit Party, Donald Trump-ally Nigel Farage, started on Friday his election campaign with an offer and a warning to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The starting gun has been fired on campaigning toward a U.K. general election on December 12 in a bid by different parties to win power and resolve the U.K.'s relationship with the European Union.
Speaking at the Brexit Party launch in Westminster, Farage said he would sign up around 500 candidates to stand for seats in England, Wales, and Scotland.
The Brexit Party has no current members of Parliament but feels it can do especially well in the leave-supporting areas of Wales and northeast England. Farage said his party could take seats from the main opposition party, Labour.
"It would be fair to say that there are around 150 seats in this country that are Labour-run constituencies that the Conservative Party have never won in their history. And they are not going to at this election," Farage said.
Farage called on the U.K. prime minister to join a "leave alliance" and said his plan would work if Johnson's Conservative Party backed away from contesting the pro-Brexit vote.
"That is how I feel a deal of this kind, a nonaggression pact, could work," said Farage.
Farage also said Brexit Party candidates would not run in areas where Conservative Party candidates were agreeable to the type of EU exit sought by his party.
Trump doesn't like Johnson's deal
Johnson recently managed to negotiate a Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU and passed a related bill through the first stage of Parliament.
Farage said Friday he would not enter any alliance with Johnson's Conservative Party unless that deal was ditched. The Brexit Party leader then offered a compromise plan.
Farage said until now he had called for a "clean break" or "no-deal" Brexit, but if an alliance with Johnson could be found then the two parties should work toward a free-trade agreement with the European Union, like the one currently enjoyed by Canada.
The anti-Brexit leader is friendly with Trump and gained something of a media coup on Thursday evening when he managed to interview the U.S. president on his regular radio show.
During the phone-in, Trump hinted heavily that Johnson's deal, which at first glance looks likely to retain many of the EU's standards and practices, would not make it easy for the United States to do a trade deal with Britain.
Farage said Friday this was further evidence that Johnson's plan was not Brexit and it was time to "drop the deal."
What will Johnson do?
The Conservative Party appeared to quickly distance itself from any union with the Brexit Party. "A vote for Farage risks letting (Labour party leader) Jeremy Corbyn into Downing Street via the back door," party Chairman James Cleverly told Reuters on Friday.
Current polling suggests that the Conservative Party may feel it doesn't need any alliance to win a majority in Parliament.
One Panelbase poll of election intentions, which asked respondents over Wednesday and Thursday, put the Conservative Party on 40 percent of the vote with the main opposition Labour on 29 percent. The Brexit Party garnered 9 percent.
Farage was dismissive when asked if he felt that Downing Street would view the polls as evidence that those who want to leave the EU will swing back to the Conservative Party, rather than the Brexit Party.
"If they think that suddenly after years of letting people down and breaking virtually every manifesto promise they have made, at election after election, that suddenly all the ‘Leave' voters of the country will stand up and say ‘we are all going to back Boris Johnson,' they don't understand the makeup of ‘Leave' voters in this country," he said.
Farage added that the desire to leave the EU crossed traditional party loyalties.
"That is why the only way to get Brexit done is to form a Leave Alliance and win this election with a big stonking majority."
Source: CNBC


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