Boris set to REJECT Nigel Farage’s plea to step down in Labour areas

Boris Johnson has rejected the demand by Nigel Farage that Conservatives step aside in Labour seats where they stand no chance of winning.

“We are going to run in all seats,” ruled a source close to the Tory leader. “We are not going to be standing down candidates anywhere.”

The outright refusal comes after the Brexit Party leader used a series of interviews to call for the Tories to reciprocate after he staged a climb-down from his threat to field 600 candidates against them.“I’ve just gifted the Conservative Party nearly two dozen seats and I did it because I believe in Leave,”“Now, if they believed in Leave, what they would do is stand aside in some seats in Labour areas where the Conservative Party has not won for 100 years and will never win. I think what you’re seeing from this reaction is, for the Conservative Party, it is about them as a party, not about delivering Brexit.”

Mr Farage faces a number of unhappy Brexit party candidates who were ordered to stand down after some say they spent money on the campaign. Others have said that they are happy with the move and consider it putting country before party.

Mr Farage has also branded Tory calls to retreat from even more seats as “almost comical”.

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