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The Brexit Party has descended into chaos following Nigel Farage's decision to pull hundreds of candidates in a pact with the Tories.

Mr Farage is facing a huge backlash from supporters, with his announcement that 317 seats will not be contested labelled "a disgrace to politics".

The anti-EU group had been set to hold a rally in central London today - but this was cancelled as the party implodes.

And it was further rocked after a Brexit Party MEP said this morning she would not vote in the General Election in protest.

Alexandra Phillips wrote on Twitter : "I will be one of millions of people who will not vote at all in the General Election. That breaks my heart.

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"I have voted in every election since I was 18 and been involved in politics for over a decade. And I have been disenfranchised by my own party."

Despite promoting its Westminster rally at the weekend, the Brexit Party quietly scrapped the event.

The party had been due to hold a meeting at Church House in Westminster, but a spokesman confirmed it was "not happening".

He said the party had "already said what we needed to say".

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Members of the media turned up unaware of the cancellation only an hour before its 11am expected start time.

Yesterday Mr Farage told supporters in Hartlepool that he was putting "country before party", shifting attention to contesting Labour seats and those held by Remain-supporting MPs.

But he has failed to convince many candidates that this is the right move.

Robert Wheal, who was due to fight in the Arundel and South Downs constituency before he was stood down, wrote on Twitter: “It’s putting Nigel before the country.

"He will go down in infamy, letting down so many good people with whom he sought their trust. He is finished as a politician.”

He added: “All that Farage has exposed is his duplicity to so many supporters who had put their faith in him.”

However one attack on Mr Farage has been shown up as a fraud.

A Twitter account purportedly run by Crawley candidate Wayne Bayley raged that he had spent £10,000 on his campaign, and fumed: "F*** your election strategy and f*** Boris."

However the candidate told The Evening Standard he supports the policy, branding it a "masterstroke".

"It's clearly managed to get a lot of attention but I have to make the best of these things," he said.

"It's causing me a lot of grief to get this out and in perspective."

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Labour's shadow education Angela Rayner told reporters in Blackpool today: "We don't fear the Brexit Party or Boris Johnson , bring it on."

Jeremy Corbyn said of the pact between the Brexit Party and the Tories: “I think what we have before us is an alliance between Donald Trump , Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.

“We know where that alliance is designed to take us - into a sweetheart trade deal with the US that will threaten all of our regulations, all of our conditions and threaten our public services.”

He continued: “When they talk about access to public health markets, I simply reply to them that last time I looked it was called the National Health Service.”