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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage Claire Doherty via PA Images

Nigel Farage says he will not stand as MP in upcoming UK general election

Farage is heading up his new Brexit Party into its first general election.

BREXIT PARTY LEADER Nigel Farage has confirmed he will not stand as an MP in the upcoming UK general election.

Farage is heading up his new Brexit Party into its first general election, having won 35% of votes in the European election. 

Speaking to the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme, Farage said he believes he will serve his cause better by travelling around the country supporting his Brexit Party candidates. 

“I’ve thought very hard about this. I thought ‘How do I serve the cause of Brexit best? Because that is what I am doing this for – not for a career, I don’t want to be in politics for the rest of my life,” Farage said.

“Do I find a seat? Try to get myself into parliament? Do I serve the cause better traversing the length and breadth of the United Kingdom supporting the 600 candidates?

“And I’ve decided the latter is the right one.”

Farage said it would be very difficult being in his constituency every day and being across the UK during the campaign. 

The British public will go the polls on Thursday 12 December.

Rejected pact

Yesterday, Farage’s threat to scupper Boris Johnson’s election chances unless the Prime Minister forms a Brexit alliance was roundly rejected by the Conservatives.

Farage launched his party’s campaign with a call on Johnson to ditch his deal and form a “Leave alliance” to deliver a “stonking majority”.

If Johnson does not agree, then the Brexit Party leader threatened to field candidates in every seat in England, Scotland and Wales in a move Tories fear could damage their chances of electoral success by splitting the Leave vote.

However, warning a vote for another party increased the likelihood of a Labour government, Johnson told Sky News: “I’ve ruled out a pact with everybody because I don’t think it’s sensible to do that.”

With reporting by Press Association

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:00 AM

    He’s afraid he wont get elected.

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    Mute GRANjzT
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:08 AM

    @SF Knee Knockers: Hit the nail on the head

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:57 AM

    @Joe Johnson: Again

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    Mute Edward Canice
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:24 AM

    @Joe Johnson: again…

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    Mute thesaltyurchin
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:46 AM

    @Joe Johnson: Too much work in it as he well knows. Time to levitate into the shadows, only revealing himself when he needs to feed.

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    Mute SF Knee Knockers
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:27 PM

    @GRANjzT: comment deleted for no reason.

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    Mute Tom Kelly
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:38 PM

    @Joe Johnson: easier to chuck mud

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    Mute Matthew O'Kane
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 1:18 PM

    @Joe Johnson: you are right Joe his Ukip party got wiped out id say this election will be even worse for that corporate supremacist farage and the brexit party of the few #JC4PM

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    Mute Richard Day
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 1:29 PM

    @Joe Johnson: He’d rather hurl from the ditch….you know the one where we’d find BoJo

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    Mute Sean Salmon
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    Nov 4th 2019, 12:09 PM

    @Joe Johnson: dont think so hes trying to distance himself from the carnage he knows his policies will cause.

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    Mute Ger Murphy
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:03 AM

    Mr. Runaway… This slithering serpent has never been interested in participating in democracy for fear he might be accountable.

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    Mute JimmyMc
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:47 AM

    @Ger Murphy: Farage was elected to the European Parliament in 1999 and re-elected in 2004, 2009 and 2014. You don’t consider the European Parliament as a democracy?

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:52 AM

    @JimmyMc: i dont consider him a democrat.

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    Mute JimmyMc
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:05 AM

    @Ger Murphy: why is that? Has he tried to overturn the results of a referendum or something?

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    Mute Peter Hughes
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:20 AM

    @JimmyMc: At the time of the referendum he thought he lost and said he would continue fighting for another rerun because it was tight…..so yes he did.

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    Mute Joe Bloggs
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:31 AM

    @JimmyMc: He is on record saying that a narrow win by the remain side would have been considered unfinished business.

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    Mute JimmyMc
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:32 AM

    @Peter Hughes: a rerun would involve a democratic process. People would have to vote on it. How is that anti-democratic when it’s exactly what half the remainers want?

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    Mute Sean
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:49 AM

    @JimmyMc: even though I dislike Farage intensely, everything he stands for and every smug utterance that he makes I have to say that you have won this specific and not very well chosen battle. More of a skirmish really. Well done you take a bow good Sir!

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    Mute Liam O'Donoghue
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:10 PM

    @Ger Murphy: the European parliament pays more than the house of commons

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:54 PM

    @JimmyMc: He does not and has a terrible record in it to boot, He gets in on a hatred vote nothing else

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    Mute Paul Culloty
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 1:41 PM

    @JimmyMc: Only because the system used in the UK allows him to be elected on party lists.

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    Mute Gerard Carthy
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 4:20 PM

    @JimmyMc: You’re factually correct….but then again a tomato is a fruit. It doesn’t mean you should put it in a fruit salad however.
    Farage is not interested in participating in democracy or Parliament, European or otherwise. He just wants a platform to stand on and be cheered by people too stupid to see through his very toxic but transparent cult of Nigel adoration.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 8:05 PM

    @Gerard Carthy: its easy to dismiss people as stupid rather than listen to them & try to understand them.

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    Mute Oonagh Comerford
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:03 AM

    Scared… and earning too much as an MEP in a parliament he hates and wants to leave??? The man has no substance.

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    Mute Manbackonboard
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:08 AM

    @Oonagh Comerford: Will those clowns still get a pension from the EU after they leave?

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:12 AM

    @Manbackonboard: yep

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:12 AM

    @Manbackonboard: prorata pension subject to term served – open to correction here

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:31 AM

    @Manbackonboard: 73K for Nigel .

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 5:47 PM

    @Oonagh Comerford: – whereas you have achieved a lot in your life I take it? Easy the throw stones.

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    Mute Conrad Shields
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:05 AM

    He is scared he would lose. All talk and no substance. So his party would have an unelected leader? How exactly would that work?

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:06 AM

    @Conrad Shields: his new party European election campaign was a flop. Oh no wait

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:30 AM

    @Joseph Lyons: he has stood for Parliament seven times (in five general elections and two by-elections) and failed to be elected

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:39 AM

    @EillieEs: correct. And he said he won’t be running again. People on here are saying it’s because he is afraid he will win! Lol people are odd

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:51 AM

    @Joseph Lyons: move over and become a party member

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:06 PM

    @Barra O Brien: great answer. One for the scrapbook.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:28 PM

    @Barra O Brien: He is a troll. Looking for validation.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 5:29 PM

    @Conrad Shields: you said he is scared he would lose. He has lost 7 times already. He kept trying. Fear of failure is clearly not evident here.
    “He’s a troll” . You are ignorant of the facts

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:07 AM

    Doesn’t want to account to a constituency or little people as he would see it.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:05 AM

    Gobshi8e

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    Mute Anne Marie Devlin
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:01 AM

    Won’t stand for a Parliament he believes in yet has no problem taking a seat in a Parliament he wants to get out of. He’s obviously worth more to the Mercers as a radio host than an mp.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:40 PM

    as an MP he would have to declare his incomes and interests would be found out for the bought man he is

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:11 AM

    A mouth without a brain!

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:25 AM

    Accountability is his problem, I see a scenario where Johnson needs the brexit party in a coalition to get his deal through, Farage resigns as leader because it’s not brexity enough.
    Possibly starts another party then, ultimate brexit party or something

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    Mute dowthebow
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:27 AM

    @dowthebow: Or his party splits the vote enough to let labour in, and he forever has a career saying brexit could’ve been done…

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:04 AM

    He is sheet stirring worm. He cannot cause ruptures in society from been a parliament memember

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    Mute Paul
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:30 AM

    I think he’s afraid he may win and become the next PM which is perhaps the most unenviable position to hold in British politics at this time

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    Mute EillieEs
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 2:44 PM

    @Paul: well he’s been rejected by the electorate in his seven previous bids to be elected to Parliament yet you think he’s afraid to become PM?

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    Mute James McArdle
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:35 AM

    Just a troll shouting and spouting, but not prepared to take respond or do any work. Failed in 5 general elections and 2 by elections already, so hardly a great record. Hopefully tv and news will forget him now as he’s not a candidate, therefore not newsworthy. But sadly media tends to roll over for loudmouth fools like him.

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    Mute Mike Lucey
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 1:38 PM

    Ah! come on! Like him or not, you will have to admit that he practically initiated Brexit single handily and has stuck with it through thick and thin. I think he probably would take a seat in the upcoming election. It looks to me that the UK electorate are quite fed up of the shenanigans of both the Tories and Labour and might well be in the mood to stir the pot further.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 3:10 PM

    @Mike Lucey: and deal with the consequences of a post-Brexit UK? Nah, he’s a one-trick pony who did a runner as soon as Leave won.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 3:38 PM

    @Mike Lucey: the complication is that Brexit Party can only steal brexit voters who ordinarily supported the other mainstream parties in previous elections …- so ironically the more successful Nigel is winning them over to Brexit Party – the more likely he splits the vote base and may actually help the parties who are anti brexit and if they win will probably scrap brexit altogether. interesting times ;-`0

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:21 AM

    If voting changed anything, the THEY would ban it!

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:19 AM

    Then he is like an animal breeder that doesn’t want to take the blame to himself but to his animals.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:18 AM

    Good.

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    Mute Breifne Lamb
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:25 PM

    Good. But what other reprobate will run instead.

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 10:36 AM

    What a chicken, mind you he’s failed 8 times

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 5:49 PM

    In 2010 he lost to a man dressed as a dolphin!!
    He’s a complete charlatan who’s only interested in enriching himself,oh and noshing Trump!

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:07 AM

    Bye Bye pathetic Nigel farage narrow mind

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:20 PM

    Let’s say he is telling the truth for once . Would Leo , Micheal or Mary Lou make the same sacrifice. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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    Mute bmul
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:54 PM

    @stephen darling: what sacrifice ???

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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:58 PM

    Ahh…gutted!

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    Mute James McArdle
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:35 AM

    Just a troll shouting and spouting, but not prepared to take respond or do any work. Failed in 5 general elections and 2 by elections already, so hardly a great record. Hopefully tv and news will forget him now as he’s not a candidate, therefore not newsworthy. But sadly media tends to roll over for loudmouth idiots like him.

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    Mute Dave WR
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 11:45 AM

    No surprise…COWARD!

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    Mute Gary Kearney
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    Nov 3rd 2019, 12:42 PM

    Coward

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    Mute Liam Dempsey
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    Nov 4th 2019, 12:20 AM

    Nigel Farage is full of piss and wind.

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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:22 PM

    Pa ra site

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    Mute Sean Doheny
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    Nov 4th 2019, 8:18 PM

    What a coward didn’t want to face the electorate he knew quiet rightly he wouldnt get elected

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    Mute Christopher Dease
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    Nov 4th 2019, 11:42 AM

    Hypocrite

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