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Leave.EU founder Arron Banks claims “at least 10” Conservative MPs have asked him to persuade Mr Farage not to stand candidates in their constituencies. There is fear in Tory ranks that a split Brexit vote will lead to a Jeremy Corbyn-led Government and the country staying in the EU. Brexiteer Tory Chris Davies lost his seat in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election to the Lib Dems by 1,425 votes last week after 3,331 people backed the Brexit Party.

Brexit Party MEPs are calling on the Conservatives to come forward with an offer of an electoral pact. Nigel Farage wants the Conservatives not to field candidates in Labour-held Leave-voting seats such as Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, which is today held by Yvette Cooper. Mr Banks said: “The Brexit Party will be hungrily eying up Labour seats in the industrial north, the Midlands and Wales. I have never seen Nigel so determined and excited by the prospect.” There is concern that pro-Remain parties will band together at the next election to keep out Brexiteers. Plaid Cymru and the Greens decided not to field candidates in Brecon and Radnorshire to give Lib Dem victor Jane Dodds a clear shot at victory.

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Mr Banks argues the “real lesson is the Conservatives should take this new Remain alliance seriously and be prepared to work with the Brexit Party to destroy Corbyn and the Labour party”. Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Phillips insists the ball is in the Tories’ court. She wants to know whether the Conservatives will refuse to allow Remainer Tories to stand for Parliament. She said: “We’ve already announced we have got candidates up and down the country and it’s up to the Conservative Party now to decide if they want to stand against us or not. “Are the Conservative Party going to boot out any incumbents who support Remain? Are they going to ensure that all of their candidates will back Brexit to the hilt?

“I actually think now it’s for the Tories to turn around and forge an electoral pact with us and come and knock on our door. “Unless they strip the party [of] Remain-sympathetic candidates they can’t call themselves the true party of Brexit.” Adamant that this is not the time for the Brexit Party to leave the stage, she said: “It’s that very electoral threat that we pose that ensures the Conservatives have to deliver what they say or they will be annihilated.” Fellow Brexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said the Conservatives could “come to speak to us like adults about a pact” in areas where a Tory is unlikely to win.

Boris Johnson angling to leave Europe on October 31

He boasted of how the party had already transformed UK politics, saying: “If it was not for Nigel Farage, Boris would not be Prime Minister right now. “We’ve been around for three and a half months and we are absolutely controlling and defining British politics.” Leading Conservative Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen warned that if people vote for the Brexit Party they could let a Labour-SNP alliance take power which would endanger the future of the UK. The North West Leicestershire MP said: “People who voted for the Brexit Party need to think about what they are doing.

“The Brexit Party realistically will not get a single MP at the next general election but would actually prevent the Conservatives delivering Brexit... “It’s clear the Remain alliance will do anything to stop Brexit being delivered and that will include bringing the Government down, forcing a general election so we can’t deliver Brexit. “If we are going to deliver Brexit voters have to vote Conservative. “The alternative is no Brexit, probably Jeremy Corbyn in No 10 in a coalition with possibly the Liberal Democrats and/or the SNP, which undoubtedly will mean no Brexit and possibly no union – the break-up of the United Kingdom. The stakes have never been higher.” Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney, who hopes to fight the Nottinghamshire seat of Ashfield at the next election, doubted the Tories would agree to a pact.

He said: “Dominic Cummings is Boris’s head of strategy, and we simply do not believe he favours the clean-break Brexit the electorate demands to restore the British people’s faith in democracy. “So long as there is a whiff of Boris reheating Theresa May’s surrender treaty to the EU and delivering a dreaded ‘Brexit in name only’, the Brexit Party will stand poised to fight every seat in a general election.” Glyn Davies, a Conservative MP who represents Montgomeryshire, the neighbouring seat to Brecon and Radnorshire, said that by unseating Mr Davies – whose expenses scandal triggered the by-election – and reducing Boris Johnson’s majority to one, people who backed the Brexit Party had made it less likely the UK will leave the EU. He said: “All they have successfully done is to have a very keen Brexiteer – somebody who was very dedicated to Leave – lose the seat to somebody who is absolutely ferociously keen to Remain.

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The Brexit Party actually made it quite a bit less likely that we would ever leave the European Union. It just seems to be so utterly and totally illogical.” The Prime Minister wants the UK to leave the EU by October 31 but there is speculation a general election will take place if his Government suffers a vote of no confidence or is defeated in an emergency Budget. Romford Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell said: “There has to be some kind of strategic thinking to ensure that we bring the Leave vote together because otherwise we could finish up with no Brexit at all.” On the possibility of talks with the Brexit Party, he said: “I certainly have no issue at all with discussions taking place with any political party with whom we have a common objective.

“We are basically pursuing the same ultimate objective and it’s important we find a way of making sure it happens. “I do think there needs to be some kind of coming together to ensure that we do get a majority in Parliament who are prepared to deliver Brexit fully.” He argues that Brecon and Radnorshire would be represented by a Brexiteer today if there had been such cooperation. The prospect of a formal alliance between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party will dismay Remainer Tories. Aberconwy MP Guto Bebb, a prominent Tory supporter of a second referendum, warned a link-up would reduce the Conservative party to “irrelevance”.

Martin Daubney hopes to fight Nottinghamshire seat of Ashfield at the next election