NIGEL Farage last night faced renewed Brexiteer demands to stand down from key Labour marginals after handing Boris Johnson an election tonic.
The Brexit Party boss agreed to put country before party by removing his candidates from all 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017.
Nigel Farage has handed Boris Johnson an election tonic by declaring his candidates would not stand against sitting Tory MPs
But the Brexit Party leader now faces renewed Brexiteer demands to stand down from key Labour marginals to ensure Tory victory
But senior Tory Eurosceptics immediately joined his own allies to insist the offer did not go anywhere near far enough to stop a Jeremy Corbyn government.
Instead, they insisted Mr Farage must also halt Brexit Party candidates from contesting the crucial Labour-held marginals that the Tories are targeting.
The news comes as:
- It emerged that Britain has avoided a recession as the economy began to grow again in a boost for Mr Johnsons election hopes
- The Sun can reveal that under-pressure Labour candidate Ian Byrne used a homophobic slur describing gay people having sex as bum fun
- Mr Corbyn was condemned for backing an isolated South American leader ousted after trying to remain in power beyond his term
- Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry could not name a single war that her lifelong pacifist leader has supported in a car crash interview live on TV
- Ms Thornberry is also on course to lose her Islington South and Finsbury seat to the Lib Dems, according to private Labour polling
- Union Unite said in court a leading Labour moderate was not fit to be an MP
Mr Johnson, who yesterday supped a pint in a Wolverhampton pub, must win at least 30 of them to be confident of a Conservative majority in the Commons on December 12.
Brexit Party wannabe MPs fighting them risk splitting the Leave vote and allowing Labour to cling on.
The development came as the Tories today launch their second major attack on Labours economic credibility in a week.
Chancellor Sajid Javid will publish a dossier to reveal workers will have to pay an extra 2,400 a year in tax to pay for the biggest Labour Party spending black hole of all time.
His analysis reveals a gap of 374billion in Labours day-to-day spending plans, for which ordinary workers may be left having to pick up the tab.
