How pacts and tactical voting could sway the coming British election
Nigel Farage makes the Tories an offer they can refuse
NIGEL FARAGE came bearing gifts. The Brexit Party, jogging along at about 14% in the polls, would step aside for the Conservatives in seats across the country, provided the Tories backed a no-deal exit from the European Union, he proposed. The price? The Conservatives would have to give Mr Farage’s party a free run at 80-90 seats in the Midlands and the north, where the Leave vote was strong but residual antipathy to the Tories is stronger. “Does Boris have the courage?” read the kicker of a wraparound advert by the Brexit Party on the front page of the Daily Express on September 11th.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Divided they fall”
Britain September 14th 2019
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