Nigel Farage will not stand to be an MP in the December general election.
The
Brexit Party leader revealed he would not fight for a parliamentary seat, insisting it he would better serve his movement’s aims by “traversing the length and breadth” of the country.Election 2019:
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BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 3, 2019Farage, who has failed in seven attempts to get elected as an MP, told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show: “I’ve thought very hard about this, how do I serve the cause of Brexit best? Because that’s what I’m doing this for, not for a career because I don’t want to be in politics for the rest of my life.
“Do I find a seat, try to get myself into parliament or do I serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the
United Kingdom, supporting 600 candidates, and I’ve decided that the latter course is the right one.
“It’s very difficult to do but it’s very difficult to be the constituency every day and at the same time be out across the United Kingdom.”Sign up now to get The Waugh Zone, our evening politics briefing, by email.
Various opinion polls this weekend have registered waning support for the Brexit Party, with YouGov and Opinium putting Farage’s outfit in single figures.
Farage has already offered to stand down Brexit Party candidates across the country if
Boris Johnson drops his EU withdrawal deal, forming a “Leave alliance” with the Tories.
But the prime minister has so far refused to agree, instead putting his Brexit deal at the centre of the Tories’
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