The Times: Nigel Farage: the Tories have offered to make me a peer twice — I won’t be bought off with baubles

03 November 2019

The Brexit Party leader has revealed how he was tempted with a peerage in exchange for fighting fewer seats and says Boris’s EU deal is like cheese — at first seeming delicious, but later starting to stink.

Nigel Farage has claimed that he was twice offered a peerage and that a senior colleague was offered a safe Tory seat in a bid to persuade the Brexit Party not to run against the Conservatives in the general election.

In an interview over lunch with The Sunday Times, the Brexit Party leader said the Conservatives had tried to “buy” his backing with “Christmas baubles” but added: “We won’t be bought.”

The claims emerged after Farage on Friday issued Boris Johnson with an ultimatum: his party will have candidates standing in every constituency in Britain unless the prime minister ditches his deal with Brussels and agrees to leave the EU on World Trade Organisation terms after the election on December 12. [...]

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