Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the most significant boost of the British elect...
HARTLEPOOL, England - Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the most significant boost of the British election campaign to date when Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said he would not contest 317 seats where the Conservative Party won in 2017.
“The Brexit Party will not contest the 317 seats the Conservatives won at the last election,” Farage said. A week ago, he had promised to field 600 candidates unless Johnson went for a “no-deal” Brexit. But in what amounts to a non-aggression pledge and an endorsement of sorts from the man cast by supporters as the godfather of Brexit, Farage spared Johnson the prospect of a right-wing challenge in almost half the 650 constituencies.
Johnson welcomed Farage’s move, which rivals said made the Conservatives in effect an ally of Farage’s hard-Brexit party. After weeks of complaining about Johnson’s Brexit deal, he reversed course on Monday, saying that a video showing Johnson pledging not to extend the post-Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020 had changed his mind.
It was a rare compromise for a man who has made a career out of forcing the hand of Conservative prime ministers.
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