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Nigel Farage says he could deliver Boris Johnson a majority of 100 if PM does Brexit pact with him
BORIS Johnson could get a majority of 100 if he teams up with Nigel Farage to deliver a No Deal Brexit, the Brexit Party boss said today.
Speaking on the first day of the Tory party conference he said he could "personally swing" the upcoming election.
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And he confirmed again he would stand to be an MP - for the eighth time.
Mr Farage told Sky News: "There is polling evidence that says 30 per cent of Labour leave voters would, if I said to them hold your nose, vote Conservative in this election, in those marginals I could actually personally help to swing some for Boris.
"Now look, I estimate he’d have a majority of 60-100 seats.
"Here is a way for Boris to get a big workable majority and we can help with that, we’d be happy to help with that but it’s got to be the right policy."
Mr Farage said he would only back Boris with a "non aggression pact" if he went for a "clean" Brexit - leaving without a deal.
But just minutes later Boris was quizzed about the idea and flatly rejected it.
The PM told Andrew Marr: "We don't do deals wit other parties."
It comes on the same day that the Brexit Party suffered its first big blow - as it booted out an MEP for “abusing” his position.
The move to withdraw the whip from solicitor Andrew Kerr came as the arch Eurosecptic said he would stand in any upcoming General Election.
The Brexit Party chief said Mr Kerr – an MEP for the West Midlands – had behaved “unacceptably”.
While refusing to go into details, he said: “He’s acted in a way as an MEP making comments about a business and a product that he has a direct financial investment in and we think that’s unacceptable.”
He said: “He is an MEP but he also is a shareholder in several businesses.
“And in our view one or two of the things he’s said and done as an MEP could be seen to potentially have brought him personal gain through his business.” The decision is understood to have stemmed from a whistleblower who contacted party HQ.
It comes just 125 days after the Brexit Party stunned UK politics by winning the European Elections in May – two months after Britain was supposed to leave the EU.
And the Brexit Party has fallen back in the polls as the Tories win over Eurosceptic support under Mr Johnson.
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Mr Kerr, 61, was one of 29 MEPs elected in May for the Brexit Party. A qualified solicitor, he previously set up a law firm and is a director of a firm that designs and supplies life saving equipment. He is listed as a director of both Englands Safety Ltd and England Kerr Hands Solicitors Ltd.
His register of interests in the European Union also lists a third directorship of Waterside Manufacturing -a men’s clothing firm.
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