Nigel Farage has been under immense pressure from backers not to split the pro-Brexit vote
been the most significant moment of the election campaign. On November 11th Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, who had talked of fighting 600 seats, said he would not field candidates in the 317 won by the Tories in 2017. He had sought a pact with Boris Johnson, but after being rejected he offered a “unilateral” alliance.
Yet the Brexit Party could still dent Mr Johnson’s chances of winning Leave-backing Labour marginals. Mr Farage claims that in these seats the party will mostly win over Labour supporters who are unhappy with Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. But most pollsters reckon it draws at least twice as many votes from the Tories as from Labour.
If the two most pro-Brexit parties can enter a form of electoral alliance, why can’t the anti-Brexit parties? Three of them—the Liberal Democrats, Greens and Plaid Cymru—have formed a “Unite to Remain” alliance, in which they agree not to run against each other in 60 seats. The Lib Dems have also decided not to oppose Dominic Grieve, a renegade ex-Tory running as an independent in Beaconsfield.
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